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Brokers still being turned down by high street lenders

Developers are still turning to brokers for help having been turned down for funding...

Smart Money hires business development head

Smart Money has appointed Steve Pollard to the newly created role of head of...

New BDM hire for Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has recruited Daniel Parry as a regional business development manager in...

Ezbob expands product proposition

Short term commercial lender Ezbob has increased its maximum loan from £50,000 to £120,000...

Alpha Bridging to establish BDM team

Alpha Bridging has revealed plans to build a national sales team after recruiting business...

Bridging market still seeing 25% annual growth

The latest West One Bridging Index has found that the UK bridging market...

First 4 Bridging appoints managing director

Master broker First 4 Bridging has recruited Lorenzo Satchell as its new managing director. He...

New P2P personal asset lender unveiled

Unbolted, an online-only peer-to-peer lending platform that lets consumers use their high-value personal assets...

Do bridging lenders earn a fair reward for the risks they take?

Bridging and short term finance is effectively project facilitating capital, and not funding to...

Smart Money moves into bridging finance

Smart Money will be adding full bridging support for intermediaries to its services from...

Vantage Finance appoints head of sales

Vantage Finance has recruited Tim Bennett as its new head of sales. The packager says...

Wilkins Kennedy LLP joins the ASTL

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has recruited another new associate member, Wilkins...

ASTL: bridging loans exceed £2bn during 2014

The Association of Short Term Lenders’ (ASTL) latest quarterly figures on the size of...

Capital Bridging steps in to finance office block purchase

Capital Bridging Finance has provided a loan of £3.2m to purchase an office block...

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Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

Why it matters that bridging hit more than £10bn last year

We see many numbers bandied around in the financial industry, which can sometimes have a numbing effect. So why should we all, especially brokers, care...

Top five reasons why renters should consider short-term protection insurance

In an unpredictable world, financial security can often feel like a luxury, especially for renters who may already juggle living expenses, rent payments, and...

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Seven out of 10 homebuyers likely to miss stamp duty deadline

Seven out of 10 (71%) homebuyers with accepted offers expect to miss the 31st...

First-time buyer mortgage sales declined in London over the past decade

First-time buyer mortgage sales in London declined significantly between 2013 and 2023, as increasing...

UTB appoints BDM for the north and Scotland

Fran Arnold has joined the sales team at United Trust Bank Mortgages as business...

International demand for UK property investment ‘more diverse than expected’

The UK property market is attracting investment from a much broader range of international...