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OSB Group makes internal promotions within sales team

OSB Group has made changes to its sales team with a pair of internal...

KSEYE partners with LDN to complete £4.2m residential bridge

KSEYE and broker firm LDN Finance have completed a £4.2 million residential bridging loan...

Aspen completes £6.5m Reigate development exit bridge

Aspen Bridging has provided a £6.5m development exit bridging loan to experienced developers, enabling...

Hope Capital revamps service offering

Hope Capital has stated that it has made "significant" upgrades to its service proposition...

Q&A: Marios Theophanous, London Credit

BestAdvice fires the questions at Marios Theophanous, credit manager at London Credit. BestAdvice (BA): The...

Promotion for UTB’s Illman

United Trust Bank (UTB) has promoted bridging specialist Bradley Illman to the role of...

Aspen completes complex refurbishment bridge

A heavy works conversion in Cheltenham as well as a church redevelopment and nearby...

Black & White Bridging to upskill workforce using CPSP

Black & White Bridging has committed to upskill its entire workforce over the next...

London Credit speeds up completions by factor of three

Bridging lender, London Credit, has substantially improved its year-on-year completion times. London Credit has...

Rob Collins returns to Sirius Finance

Sirius Finance has announced that one of its founding directors, Rob Collins, has returned...

Trade body opposes FCA’s ‘name and shame’ plans

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has opposed proposals by the FCA that...

InterBay provides £4.5m bridge

A recent bridging deal with InterBay through SPF Private Clients took three weeks from...

Mortimer Street Capital completes £4.1m development exit deal

Mortimer Street Capital has completed a £4.1m development exit bridging facility for a client...

Hope Capital makes dual representation improvements

Hope Capital says it has made improvements to its offering, now considering legal dual...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

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...

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ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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