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Masthaven Bridging completes £1.6m deal

Masthaven and First4Bridging have joined forces to secure a £1.6 million bridging loan. The loan...

Montello continues to grow loan book

Montello Finance has said it is lending over £250m a year. The London firm claims...

UTB offers ‘best of British’ competition

Brokers visiting United Trust Bank’s stand at the NACFB Commercial Finance Expo will have...

FCA mortgage manager to keynote ASTL conference

Lynda Blackwell, the Financial Conduct Authority's manager of its mortgages sector team is to...

Hope Capital hires HR specialist

Hope Capital has appointed its second new member of support staff in the past...

SCF expands commercial and bridging team

Specialist Commercial Finance (SCF) has announced the appointment of Wes Friedel to its commercial...

New website for Brightstar

Brightstar Financial has launched its new website band has also reached the milestone of...

Borro to host World Cup event

Borro is hosting an intermediary networking event for the start of the 2014 World...

How bridging finance is supporting BTL growth

The buy to let sector continues to show significant growth, in direct correlation to...

Aldermore joins the ASTL

Aldermore has become the newest member of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL). The...

“Dramatic” quarterly rise in bridging applications

There has been an 83% increase in applications for bridging loans in the first...

Aldermore reveals bridging proposition

Aldermore is moving into the bridging market, with products to be offered through the...

Blemain behind multi-million pound Birmingham bridge

A major property transaction in the centre of Birmingham has been financed using a...

New associate member for ASTL

Robert Sterling Surveyors has become the Association of Short Term Lenders' (ASTL) latest...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...

Family BS strengthens intermediary team with BDM appointment

Family Building Society has appointed Sam Byrne as business development manager for the northern...

Buckinghamshire cuts rates across credit repair ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced selected rates across its Credit Revive and Credit Restore...

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