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Alternative finance growth outstrips traditional lending

Growth in traditional mortgage lending (1.4%) was outpaced 50 times by annual growth in...

AToM to hold specialist lending seminars

All Types of Mortgages Ltd (AToM) has announced the first dates of a series...

New hire for Bridgebank

Bridgebank Capital has announced the appointment of Kay Williams as legal case manager. Her role...

Masthaven hires group financial controller

Inge Valkenburg has joined Masthaven as its group financial controller. Valkenburg (pictured) joins the London-based...

Bridgebank Capital grows business development team

Bridgebank Capital has announced the appointment of Trupti Edwards in a new role as...

New senior BDM for Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has appointed Maria Magnussen to the position of senior business development...

Record time at Crystal Mortgages

Crystal Mortgages has reported that new products and high street banks' continuing reluctance to...

Mayfair Bridging makes UCIS-related hire

Bridging lender Mayfair Bridging has appointed Jamie Bleakley as its head of sales and...

Borro offering England rugby lead incentive

Borro has unveiled a broker incentive scheme, with international rugby as the prize. The first...

Dragonfly head of sales to leave

Elliot Hyames, head of sales at Dragonfly Property Finance, is to leave the bridging...

Precise revamps bridging proposition

Precise Mortgages has cut the price of its bridging loans. The redesign of pricing has...

Brightstar increases Precise proc fees

Brightstar Financial has increased procuration fees for bridging deals on cases for Precise Mortgages. For...

Masthaven’s move north of the border heralded

Capital Bridging Finance has welcomed Masthaven's move into Scotland. Following Cheval departure's from the sector...

Omni Capital enhances product offering

Omni Capital has made improvements to its broker-facing range of bridging, refurbishment finance and...
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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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