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Oblix Capital completes £970k permitted development bridge

Oblix Capita has completed on a permitted development (PD) bridge in Dudley, West Midlands...

Octane Capital appoints senior credit manager

Octane Capital has hired Donna-Louise House as senior credit manager. She will report into Matt...

West One Loans establishes ‘premier loan team’

West One Loans has set up a premier loan team to support intermediaries and...

Octane Capital appoints senior structured finance manager

Octane Capital has hired Rick Hollingsworth as its senior structured finance manager. He will report...

F4B restructures as sales director leaves

Finance 4 Business (F4B) has announced a restructuring of its leadership team and the...

Brightstar partners with The Right Mortgage & Protection Network

Brightstar Financial has joined up with The Right Mortgage & Protection Network to distribute...

Brokers’ top searches in September revealed

The latest Criteria Activity Tracker provided by Knowledge Bank has revealed the most searched...

Affirmative makes changes to underwriting and processing team

Affirmative Finance has made two internal promotions and announced a new appointment in the...

Masthaven Bank to hold charity sleepout at the Oval

Colleagues at Masthaven Bank are supporting their chosen charity, the youth homelessness organisation Depaul...

Oblix Capital completes £3.36m permitted development bridge

Oblix Capital has finalised a £3.36 million permitted development (PD bridge) situated in Leicester. The...

Central Bridging helps limited company client

Central Bridging has completed a £1,169,000 bridging loan in seven working days to redeem...

Tuscan Capital expands short-term product offering

Tuscan Capital has expanded its range of short-term property funding solutions with the addition...

New bridging lender enters the market

Interbridge Loans has unveiled a range of non-regulated bridging products for the residential and...

LendInvest launches Bridge to Term transition service

LendInvest has cut its rates across its bridging product range and introduced a new...

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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