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Aspen completes £4.65m bridge for foreign national

Aspen Bridging has completed a £4,650,000 residential purchase bridge for a foreign national on...

CSF sees record growth in first three months of 2024

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has recorded its best start to a year as it...

TAB joins Brilliant Solutions Mortgage Club panel

Short-term lender, TAB, has partnered with Brilliant Solutions Mortgage Club. Brilliant Solutions’ members will...

Results AM joins ASTL

Results Asset Management has become the latest organisation to join the Association of Short...

Tuscan Capital appoints marketing manager

Tuscan Capital has announced the appointment of a new marketing manager. Hannah Melhuish joins...

MFS adds title insurance across product ranges

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has introduced title insurance across a series of its residential...

Majority of brokers expect more bridging business this year

68% of brokers expect to arrange more bridging loans in 2024 than 2023, according...

Glenhawk appoints head of credit policy

Glenhawk has appointed John Butt to the newly created role of head of credit...

Aldermore strengthens funding relationship with bridging lender

Aldermore bank has provided a rise to its already multi-million pound block bridging facility...

Tuscan hires Midlands regional sales director

Tuscan Capital has announced the appointment of a new regional sales director for the...

HTB appoints bridging BDM for the North

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has appointed Anthony Gorman as bridging business development manager (BDM)...

Aspen makes risk and recoveries appointments

Aspen Bridging has appointed Stephen Hickman as senior risk assessor and Kyle Taylor as...

Tuscan Capital appoints regional sales director

Tuscan Capital has announced the appointment of a new regional sales director covering the...

Paradigm adds MFS to panel

Paradigm has announced the addition of specialist lender, Market Financial Solutions (MFS) to its...

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...

Latest news

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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