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Brokers expect little rate change from BoE next year

66% of brokers surveyed by bridging lending United Trust Bank expect the Bank of...

Business boost for Complete FS

Complete FS has seen an increase of over 63% in new business levels over...

Fine art increasingly popular with borro

Since December 2011, asset lender borro has seen a 21.7% increase in the loan...

Capital Bridging Finance secures funding line

Capital Bridging Finance Limited (CBFL) has secured a £50 million lending facility from an...

SMS offers whole of market bridging solution

Solent Mortgage Services (SMS) has embarked upon an exclusive joint venture to market the...

Capital Bridging Finance takes MAD Approach

Alan Dring and his business support company, The MAD Approach, have been brought in...

NACFB members offered Dragonfly exclusive

Dragonfly Property Finance has unveiled a new commercial bridging loan deal exclusively for members...

Less pressure to reduce asking prices

The proportion of properties on the market across the UK that have seen their...

West One Loans publishes loan redemption details

West One Loans has revealed that it received 28 loan redemptions during October. They...

New funding for Bridgebank Capital

Bridgebank Capital has revealed that it has completed a new line of investment. The bridging...

Paxton Private Finance seeks to expand bridging operations

Paxton Private Finance is looking to raise £10 million for the second tranche of...

Dragonfly offers ‘Bridge-to-let’

Dragonfly Property Finance has launched what it calls a 'Bridge-to-let' product. It is a hybrid...

Seasonal offer from Precise

Precise Mortgages has replaced its Summer Special bridging product for loans between £1 million...

Positive Lending launches Xmas incentive

Positive Lending has unveiled its Christmas reward scheme. For any secured, bridging, commercial, development or...

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

Ampla Finance unveils Untangled rebrand as it broadens specialist lending ambitions

Specialist lender Ampla Finance has launched a new brand identity, Untangled, as it looks...

Halifax retains top spot in broker satisfaction survey

Halifax has once again been named the best overall lender for broker experience in...

Nationwide cuts switcher mortgage rates for existing borrowers

Nationwide is reducing rates across its switcher mortgage range for existing customers by up...

Hinckley & Rugby adds visa mortgage products to offering

Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries has launched four two-year discount visa mortgage products across...

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