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Trio joins Catalyst Property Finance

Catalyst Property Finance has announced three new appointments within its head office team. There is...

Benson Hersch announces departure from ASTL

Benson Hersch will step down as CEO of the Association of Short-Term Lenders (ASTL)...

Former Pepper MD to advise bridging lender

Roma Finance has appointed Colin Snowdon as board adviser. Snowdon (pictured) was previously managing director...

Octopus ups maximum unregulated bridging LTV

Octopus Real Estate is making changes to its unregulated residential bridging product. It is increasing...

Kuflink appoints CFO

Kuflink Group plc has hired former Barclaycard financial director, Tim Spurr, as chief financial...

Arbuthnot Specialist Finance completes first deal

Arbuthnot Specialist Finance (ASFL) has completed its first loan since announcing its launch in...

Mint Bridging makes changes to speed up application process

Mint Bridging has launched a new product proposition. For sub-60% loan to value (LTV) bridging...

Hope Capital introduces its lowest ever rates

Bridging lender Hope Capital has launched its lowest ever interest rate for June. Rates on...

Masthaven revamps bridging offering

Masthaven has made major changes to its short-term lending offering to include reduced rates for...

Permitted development extension an opportunity for brokers

Oblix Capital has claimed that the government's announcement to extend permitted development rules, which...

Enra Group makes senior appointments

West One Loans and its parent, Enra Group, have made a number of strategic...

Mint Bridging creates separate development and bridging teams

Mint Bridging has separated out its development lending from its traditional bridging lending. It has...

CBRE joins the ASTL

CBRE Limited has become an associate member of the Association of Short Term Lenders...

Clever Lending unveils new broker portal

Clever Lending has launched a new online portal to improve the way brokers manage...

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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