Buy-to-let remortgage activity up as purchase activity stagnates
7 hours agoThere were 12,400 new buy-to-let remortgages completed in December 2018, 25.3% more than in the same month a year...
Surge in new lenders entering the bridging market
9 hours ago
Short-term lending transactions are also up 15%...
Lee Carling joins First 4 Bridging
Mon 18 Feb 2019
Carling is well known in the industry from his time at West One Loans where he was head...
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Marsden launches lending solution for short-term mortgage
7 hours ago
Designed to support intermediaries who have clients between properties and need a mortgage to...
Fluent Money partners with Optimum for first sub 3% second
Mon 18 Feb 2019
Two other recent cases from Fluent Money have now also met the criteria to receive a rate below 3%....
Equifinance hires regional sales manager for the north
Mon 18 Feb 2019
Thomas has experience in the lending sector having worked for Digitonomy as channel manager for the...
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London brokers increasing their amount of international bridging
Mon 18 Feb 2019
Based on observations and conversations over the past year, there appears to have been an increase...
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated
Thu 24 Jan 2019
I bet you didn’t know that crest-tailed mulgara, a pocket-sized predator, once believed extinct,...
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West One partners with ME Developments for £5.5m development finance facility
Thu 14 Feb 2019
The facility is funding the construction of five, high specification, five-bedroom homes with each...
Octane Capital hires finance manager
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Chai is a fully qualified chartered management accountant and joins Octane from London-based...
Connect adds Lenderlink and Fluent Money to second charge lending panel
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Launched in July 2018, Lenderlink offer access to a panel of second charge lenders. All Connect...
What buy-to-let landlords can expect in 2019
Tue 22 Jan 2019
As 2019 gets underway, and economic conditions continue to be uncertain, it is important for...
2019 is set to be a critical year for the future of letting agency
Wed 2 Jan 2019
Neil Cobbold, chief operating officer of PayProp UK The next 12 months will shape the future of...
Buy to let changes for 2019
Tue 11 Dec 2018
Andrew Turner, chief executive at Commercial Trust. As 2018 draws to an end, there has been much...
Fluent Money Group employee headcount passes 250
Mon 11 Feb 2019
Founded as a second charge specialist the company then became a large distributor and expanded into...
Midlands Asset Finance hires business development manager
Fri 8 Feb 2019
Working from the office based in Narborough, she will join John Horne and Shital Koria in...
38% of London boroughs uninhabitable for renters
Fri 8 Feb 2019
London’s most notoriously expensive borough tops the list as London’s most uninhabitable, with...
Octopus Property to provide £36m loan for student accomodation
Thu 7 Feb 2019
The scheme was brought to Octopus Property by John Kerrigan, director at Arc & Co., who advised...
Brace yourselves! 2019 could be 2009 all over again
Mon 10 Dec 2018
Jonathan Samuels, founder and chief executive of Octane Capital And so the end of another year...
Is the short-term lending market robust enough to deal with the fallout from Brexit?
Mon 10 Dec 2018
What a mess! Most people provisioned for uncertainty, not many for huge internal political chaos,...
It’s less than two weeks to section 21 changes
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Andrew Turner, chief executive, Commercial Trust Landlords with tenancies pre-dating October...