Specialist

Hope Capital announces key internal promotions

Hope Capital has made a number of important promotions within its team. Charlie Gregory, who...

Enra Specialist Finance reports record trading results in 2023

Enra Specialist Finance, the parent company of specialist lender West One Loans and specialist...

Funding 365 moves into Northern Ireland

Funding 365 has announced the launch of its residential bridging proposition for Northern Ireland....

Suros Capital widens service to business lending

Suros Capital, the luxury asset backed short term lender, will now lend to companies...

OSB Group makes key personnel changes

OSB Group has introduced a new senior sales structure, designed to support its intermediary...

Roma Finance hires business development manager pair

Roma Finance has appointed Amer Watson and Shahed Popat as business development managers (BDMs). ...

MT Finance adds AVMs to bridging offering

MT Finance has announced its introduction of automated valuation models (AVMs) to its bridging...

Hope Capital improves employee benefit scheme

Hope Capital is investing significantly in its internal wellbeing and benefits scheme, myHOPE. ...

UTB cuts bridging rates and lowers minimum loan size

United Trust Bank (UTB) has made a series of changes and rate reductions of...

Brokers more optimistic about year ahead than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has surveyed over 10,000 brokers for the second year running and...

MFS cuts residential bridging and BTL rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has cut rates across its residential bridging and buy-to-let mortgage...

Arc & Co arranges £9.5m bridging loan

Real estate finance advisory firm Arc & Co. has arranged a bridging loan of...

Aspen completes £2.8m development exit

Aspen Bridging has completed a £2.8m development exit bridge on a 14-unit development of...

Bridging Finance Solutions outlines growth plans

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has revealed plans to expand by a further 25% in...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Latest news

SortRefer marks 17 years with record month for instructions and completions

SortRefer has marked its 17th anniversary after reporting its strongest monthly performance to date...

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let rates on selected new business deals

The Mortgage Works is cutting selected buy-to-let and let-to-buy rates by up to 0.20...

Primis promotes three in push to expand recruitment and regional broker support

Primis has promoted three senior executives as it seeks to recruit more adviser firms...

Santander cuts higher LTV rates for first-time buyers and home movers

Santander is cutting selected fixed mortgage rates across its first-time buyer, home mover and...

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