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Hope Capital to offer 1.5% proc fee

Hope Capital will offer a 1.5% procuration fee to all brokers on bridging cases...

Brightstar helps Precise complete largest bridging loan

Precise Mortgages and Brightstar Financial have joined forces to complete their largest bridging...

AToM to hold Brighton seminar

AToM (All Types of Mortgages Ltd) has published details of the lenders who are...

Buy-to-let investors target alternative finance

Buy-to-let investments are the most popular use for alternative lending, according to a...

Dragonfly creates buzz with Hornet hire

Dragonfly Property Finance has appointed a new credit manager. Peter Hornet joins the short-term...

Another funder joins the ASTL

Hope Capital Ltd has become the newest member of the Association of Short Term...

Fincorp cuts minimum bridge size

Fincorp is cutting its minimum bridging loan size down to £100,000 with immediate effect. This...

Record first quarter for Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has said the first three months of the year represented its...

ASTL reveals conference plans

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) will hold its inaugural annual conference for...

Auction Finance reduces rates

Auction Finance has launched two new bridging loan products at its lowest ever rates. The...

Positive Lending unveils new low-priced short-term deal

Positive Lending has been selected to distribute a prime short-term lending product priced at...

Y3S launches Loans Insider magazine

Y3S Group has unveiled a new industry magazine for the UK’s financial intermediaries, called...

Positive Lending and UTB behind Silverstone F1 competition

Specialist lending packager and distributor Positive Lending and United Trust Bank are offering the...

Brightstar holds second Masthaven lender day

Brightstar Financial is holding its second Lender Day in association with Masthaven Bridging and...

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,...

Latest news

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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