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New P2P investment options from Kuflink

Peer-to-peer platform Kuflink, sister business to bridging lender Kuflink Bridging, has announced the launch of two...

Bridging sector returns to growth

The latest West One Bridging Index has reported that gross annual bridging lending increased...

Octane Capital expands risk team

Octane Capital has recruited Gemma Salousti to its risk team as senior credit manager. She...

UTB unveils new mortgages and bridging BDM team

United Trust Bank (UTB) has revealed the line-up of business development professionals tasked with...

VAS launches valuation panel software

Valuation Audit Services (VAS) has launched VAS Software, a new cloud based service to...

Together offers its lowest ever regulated bridging rate

Specialist lender Together has launched its lowest ever regulated bridging rate at 0.49% per month. The...

Private equity vehicle’s Shawbrook bid passes key threshold

Private equity consortium Marlin Bidco is likely to take over Shawbrook Bank following capturing 75.6%...

UK specialist lending bolstered by M&A activity

19 transactions were announced across asset, property and personal finance worth over £3bn in...

ASTL celebrates record membership levels

FRP Advisory has become the fifth associate member to join the Association of Short...

Richard Tugwell joins Together

Together has appointed Richard Tugwell to the position of group intermediary relationship director. Tugwell (pictured)...

Together in two-day bridging turnaround

Specialist lender Together, working with mortgage broker SPF Private Client, has completed a regulated...

Connect for Intermediaries adds West One Loans to bridging panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added West One Loans to its panel of bridging lenders....

Gary Bailey to leave Together after two decades

Together has announced that its sales director Gary Bailey is leaving the business, after...

Octane Capital hires director of commercial real estate finance

Octane Capital has recruited Matthew Bird as its new director of commercial real estate...

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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