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Hope Capital completes £4m complex country house deal

Hope Capital has completed a £4 million loan on a multi-million pound four-storey country...

Regulated bridging loans increase market share

£732.7m of bridging loans were transacted by contributors to the Bridging Trends report in...

Shawbrook Bank hires national sales manager

Shawbrook has appointed Marc Callaghan as national sales manager. His appointment follows a restructure within...

MFS arranges pair of bridging loans for auction purchases

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed two separate bridging loans in the past month...

Glenhawk to provide regulated products

Glenhawk has received authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), providing a platform for...

InterBay Commercial appoints senior business development manager

InterBay Commercial has appointed Krissy Salmon as senior business development manager covering South West,...

Aspen Bridging unveils exit-fee free deals

Aspen Bridging has introduced flat rate products without exit fees. It is offering Prime...

New Leaf Distribution adds Greenfield Mortgages to panel

Greenfield Mortgages has launched with New Leaf Distribution. Greenfield Mortgages provides FCA regulated and unregulated...

Central Bridging completes £0.5m second charge bridge

Central Bridging has completed a £550k second charge bridging loan in eight working days. The...

New short-term lender launches

Atelier Capital Partners has launched into the short-term lending and development finance market with...

Hope Capital introduces seven-month term

Hope Capital has made changes to its Hope Seven 5 bridging product. For the first...

Apex Bridging reintroduces 85% LTV product

Apex Bridging has reintroduced its exclusive 85% LTV offer for its Premier Panel brokers. The...

Fiduciam looks to increase London presence

Bridging lender Fiduciam has completed a deal worth nearly £1 million on two properties...

MBO at Signature Private Finance

Signature Private Finance's CEO Tony Gilbertson and his senior management team, have completed a...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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