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Connect for Intermediaries adds West One Loans to bridging panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added West One Loans to its panel of bridging lenders....

Gary Bailey to leave Together after two decades

Together has announced that its sales director Gary Bailey is leaving the business, after...

Octane Capital hires director of commercial real estate finance

Octane Capital has recruited Matthew Bird as its new director of commercial real estate...

Shawbrook directors reject takeover bid

Shawbrook Group is sending a circular to its shareholders in response to the final...

ASTL welcomes back founder member

Affirmative Group has re-joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL). The Manchester-based lender left...

New bridging deal from LendInvest

LendInvest has launched a new three-year bridge product as a funding alternative to a...

Comercial Trust extends Mortgage Brain partnership

Commercial Trust has extended its partnership with Mortgage Brain and is now offering the...

Clever Lending becomes Masthaven Premier Partner

Clever Lending has been appointed as a Premier Partner of Masthaven Bank. It will distribute...

Octane joins Pure Funding Solutions’ panel

Octane Capital has been added to Pure Funding Solutions’ panel of lenders. New lender Octane...

Alternative lenders filling the void

The latest Property Investor Survey conducted by bridging lender, MTF, has revealed that three-quarters of...

Octane Capital completes offshore ownership deal

Octane Capital has completed a £5.4m bridging loan to an offshore borrower in seven...

MBE Bristol Expo open for registration

Free registration for the Bristol Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) on 6 June is now...

Octane Capital partners with network

Connect for Intermediaries has become the first mortgage network to partner with new bridging lender...

Hope Capital moves into London and the south

Bridging lender Hope Capital is boosting its presence in London and the south with...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...