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JMW Solicitors joins ASTL

JMW Solicitors has become the latest organisation to join the Association of Short Term...

Octane Capital promotes credit team quartet

Octane Capital has announced the promotion of four members of its credit team. Rick Hollingsworth,...

Somo’s Black Friday campaign reduces valuation costs by 90%

Somo Bridging has provided details of its Black Friday 2023 event, which gives borrowers...

Gateway Surveyors reappointed as Fleet Mortgages’ panel manager

Gateway Surveyors has been reappointed as the panel manager for Fleet Mortgages, following its...

Suros Capital uses past valuation for fast follow-on loan

Suros Capital, the luxury asset-backed short-term lender, has completed a follow on loan of...

Kuflink joins Dynamo for Intermediaries panel

Kuflink has become the latest lender to join Dynamo for Intermediaries’ lender panel. All...

MT Finance Group secures additional £500m funding

MT Finance Group has completed additional financing through J.P. Morgan to expand its lending...

Clever Lending completes regulated bridging loan in Scotland

Clever Lending has packaged a £180,800 regulated bridging facility for a residential property purchase...

MHBS unveils fixed rate bridging deals

Specialist lender Market Harborough Building Society (MHBS) has introduced a series of new products...

Suros Capital reports major rise in business enquiries

Suros Capital has reported a 40% rise in enquiries this year about business purposes...

United Trust Bank appoints bridging BDM

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Gary Lomax as business development manager in its...

Signature makes appointment covering the North and North West

Signature Property Finance has announced the appointment of Paul Ratcliffe as relationship manager for...

StreamBank joins Loans Warehouse panel

StreamBank has joined Loans Warehouse's panel of bridging lenders. StreamBank specialises in both Rrgulated anduUnregulated...

Alternative Bridging makes BDM appointment

Alternative Bridging Corporation has promoted Mike Halsey to the role of business development manager...

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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