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Primis refreshes packager panel

Primis Mortgage Network has announced a refresh to its packager panel for immediate delivery...

Bridging Link joins FIBA

Specialist finance trade body, Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA), has announced the appointment...

Octane Capital cuts rates in reaction to election result

Octane Capital has reduced its risk rating given the improved outlook for the UK...

Oblix Capital appoints non-executive chairman

Oblix Capital has announced that Mark Sismey-Durrant, formally an independent adviser to the board,...

Fiduciam aims for €100m in Spanish bridging loans

Fiduciam completed its second year of providing bridging loans in Spain, with total loan...

Central London bridge saves £1m deposit

Aspen Bridging has completed one of its largest deals to date having funded a...

TMA expands bridging offering

TMA has added short-term lender, Greenfield Mortgages, to its bridging panel. TMA members now have...

United Trust Bank expands bridging into Scotland

United Trust Bank is extending its bridging service into Scotland. Until now, the Bank’s bridging...

CSF outlines Q1 webinar programme

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has published details of its first webinars for 2020, with...

Shawbrook funds high-end HMO conversion

Shawbrook has provided a short-term loan and £4 million Customer Appetite Statement to help...

MT Finance expands distribution

Bridging and short-term lender, MT Finance, has joined Paradigm Mortgage Services' lender panel. Paradigm’s member...

Tuscan Capital to broaden range with new funding facility

Bridging lender Tuscan Capital has secured additional new funding to further support its growth...

CSF posts record annual performance in 2019

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has reported a decade of continual growth with a record...

PMS and Sesame add Hampshire Trust Bank to lender panels

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network, part of Sesame Bankhall Group, have expanded their...

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...

Latest news

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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