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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...

Dragonfly turns around LLP deal in two days

Dragonfly Property Finance has completed on a £1 million bridge for a Limited Liability...

Masthaven moves into Scotland

Masthaven has announced that products from both Masthaven Bridging Finance and Masthaven Secured Loans...

Precise publishes December completion figures

Precise Mortgages completed on over £16 million of bridging loans in December 2012....

Dragonfly celebrates bridge for BVI borrower

Dragonfly Property Finance has taken a £3m bridging loan to an offshore structure from...

Brightstar distributes new bridging tranche

Precise Mortgages is lending an extra £5 million tranche of bridging funding through distributor...

ASTL bridging figures published for first time

In the last quarter up until the end of September, bridging applications were received...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Latest news

PMS reports double-digit growth in mortgages and protection

PMS Mortgage Club says it is on course for its strongest performance in five...

Property firms urged to engage early with digital home-moving reforms

Property professionals have been urged to start testing digital home-moving processes now rather than...

DPMSG launches consumer guide to Smart Property Data

The Digital Property Market Steering Group has launched a consumer-focused video explaining how Smart...

Together joins Equity Release Council as later life market broadens

Together has become a member of the Equity Release Council as the specialist lender...

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