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Karen Rodrigues joins MFS

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has appointed Karen Rodrigues as its new head of national...

Roma Finance appoints head of field sales

Roma Finance has appointed Sonia Mann as head of field sales. She has also joined...

Clever Lending secures £307k regulated bridge for downsizing client

Clever Lending, the specialist finance packager and master broker, has secured a £307,000 regulated...

CapitalRise reports 80% YOY origination boost

CapitalRise has announced that four loans that were completed in May, totalling £18m. This...

Three new hires at Somo Bridging

Specialist lender, Somo Bridging, has expanded its team with the appointment of a new...

Colenko extends ‘triple lock’ rate guarantee

Bridging and development finance lender, Colenko, has extended its Triple Lock guarantee across all...

First CPSP candidates complete training programme

The Certified Practitioner in Specialist Property Finance (CPSP) programme, launched as a joint initiative...

Hope Capital raises over £6k for North West Cancer Research

Hope Capital has revealed that it has raised over £6,000 for North West Cancer...

Alternative Bridging Corporation appoints new BDM

Alternative Bridging Corporation has added its sales team for the North of England and...

Three hires and three promotions at Aspen Bridging

Aspen Bridging has appointing three new graduate underwriters and promoting a further three staff...

Clever Lending completes 85% refurb loan for auction purchase

Clever Lending has recently secured an 85% loan to value (LTV) bridging facility worth...

HTB completes first Sirius bridging case in three weeks

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has provided the funding for the refinancing of a semi-commercial...

Roma Finance appoints data & technology director

Roma Finance has announced the appointment of Nathan Kenny to the position of data...

Tuscan Capital reveals turnaround and completion benefits from Fast Track

Tuscan Capital has outlined the benefits of its Fast Track process on the one-year...

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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