Specialist

Colin Sanders leaves Fortwell Capital

Colin Sanders is leaving the CPC-owned lender Fortwell Capital after six years at the...

Record month for Octopus Property

Octopus Property has reported record monthly lending performance for March. Under the leadership of Mario Berti, Octopus...

AOBP outlines April Forum details

The Association of Bridging Professionals’ (AOBP) April Forum on 27 April will cover the...

Bridging lenders positive despite Brexit

Bridging lenders who are members of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) are increasingly...

West One Loans cuts unregulated bridging rates

West One Loans has cut rates for unregulated residential loans by up to 0.4...

Roma Finance announces underwriting promotions

Roma Finance has announced the promotion of Daniel Hill to bridging sales specialist and Lorraine Hart...

West One Loans partners with Black Book Finance

West One Loans range of bridging products are now being offered to mortgage intermediaries...

BFS hires consultant to boost banking referrals

Lee Gilmore has joined Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) as a consultant. Gilmore, who is a...

Clever Lending: regulated bridging finance on the up

Clever Lending has reported a "significant" rise in regulated bridging finance in terms of...

Ex-Dragonfly trio launch Octane Capital

Founder of Dragonfly Property Finance, Jonathan Samuels, is to launch Octane Capital in May. Octane Capital...

Bridging Finance Solutions adopts Target’s Bluechip web portal

Target Group is to supply its new Bluechip web portal to Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS). The...

UTB reveals ‘Meet the Specialists’ promo winner

United Trust Bank has announced that the winner of its 2016 'Meet the Specialists' broker...

Further ‘Spring Fling’ changes from Shawbrook

Shawbrook Commercial Mortgages has unveiled rate reductions on all short term products, as well as...

Profits and originations up at OneSavings Bank

OneSavings Bank (OSB) has reported a rise of 29% in underlying pre-tax profits to...

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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