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Manor Mortgages expands bridging panel

Manor Mortgages has added Masthaven Finance to its bridging lending panel. Masthaven is FSA regulated...

SPF Short Term Finance encouraged by post-launch activity

The specialist division of high-net-worth broker SPF Private Clients expressed satisfaction following its first...

Bridging and loan growth for Enterprise Finance

Enterprise Finance has claimed that in the first half of this year the number...

Dragonfly appoints credit manager

Brian Levin has joined Dragonfly Property Finance as credit manager. He was previously...

Masthaven Property Lending gets FSA authorisation

A subsidiary of Masthaven Group has gained FSA authorisation. Masthaven Property Lending has obtained authorisation...

Precise Mortgages’ commission boost from Positive Lending

Positive Lending is to pay introducers 1.50% for all completed Precise Mortgages' bridging business...

West One Loans appoints BDM

West One Loans has has appointed Keir Morris as a business development manager (BDM). He...

Precise added to Paradigm bridging panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has expanded its bridging lender panel following the addition of Precise...

New hire for United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank has appointed Bradley Illman to its case management team. He is...

The ASTL must drive the bridging industry forward

We need an active and dynamic trade association, writes Steven Nicholas, chief executive of...

UTB announces iPad winner

United Trust Bank has revealed the winner of its latest broker survey prize draw. Bryan...

New chief executive for the ASTL

Benson Hersch has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of the Association...

New funding for Tiuta

Tiuta says it has secured a major new funding arrangement. This follows the news that...

UTB sales manager goes the extra (four) miles for charity

Gerard Morgan Jackson, sales manager at United Trust Bank, has completed a 64-mile London...

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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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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...

NatWest strengthens broker support with intermediary team expansion

NatWest has expanded its intermediary leadership team with the creation of two new corporate...

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