Hilltop Credit Partners (“Hilltop”), a UK-based specialist development funding partner, has secured investment from Metropolitan Real Estate (“Metropolitan”), the global real estate multi-manager platform. As part of this, Hilltop will target to deploy up to £300m over the next three years to finance the construction of over 1,000 new residential units across the UK, with […]
DF Capital, the newly authorised specialist commercial lending and personal savings bank, today announced that it is launching DF Choice, a new unit stocking feature which gives dealers product flexibility to suit their cashflow needs. Customers will be able to control their funding requirements by creating a specific schedule for every individual asset funded by […]
Paragon Bank continues to support UK SMEs, providing a funding package of £865,000 to Nuneaton-based demolition specialist, AR Demolition Ltd. AR Demolition approached Paragon for support in order to update some of its fleet with the latest machines and equipment to ensure that the business remains at the forefront of the sector. The funding package […]
Investment managers Downing LLP and Pollen Street Capital are pleased to announce a £24.3m co-funded deal, following the recently launched real estate funding partnership between the two businesses. Downing LLP and alternative investment manager Pollen Street Capital have committed £24.3m of development funding towards the construction of two purpose-built student apartment blocks in Canterbury, which […]
A series of major enhancements has been made to West One’s second charge mortgage range including the return of 85% loan-to-value for prime borrowers. Maximum loans sizes have also been increased across the entire range along with significant rate reductions of between 1% and 1.24% applied to the near prime Apex 2 products. LTV increases […]
Start-up and small business intelligence specialist, Business Data Group, has today completed the reacquisition of UK Business Forums (UKBF), the UK’s largest and most active forum for start-up and micro-businesses. This acquisition brings together the UK’s leading authority on company formations and start-up sector business data intelligence with the UK’s largest and most active business […]
Two Walsall-based entrepreneurs and brothers, trading as Khera & Khera Ltd, have refinanced a large industrial estate in Halesfield, near Telford, on a longer-term, more competitively priced commercial mortgage through Cambridge & Counties Bank. Led by Paul & Lucky Khera, the brothers were introduced to the bank by commercial broker Dan Ahmed at Midland Bridging […]
The Alison Rose Review into Female Entrepreneurship (“Rose Review”), first published in March 2019, demonstrated that up to £250bn of new value (equivalent to 1 SME million businesses) could be added to the UK economy; if women started and scaled new businesses at the same rate as UK men. The pandemic has compounded the difficulties […]
SMEs can apply, get decisions and receive funding of up to £25,000 on the same day Nucleus Commercial Finance, one of the UK’s leading fintech lenders, has today announced the launch of Business Growth Loans. This is the first product of its kind designed to support SMEs as a top-up to the government’s Coronavirus Business […]
Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) Specialist Mortgages has widened their valuation panel with the appointment of VAS Panel to give additional support to brokers across their bridging offering. This partnership will provide HTB’s broker partners access to the VAS Panel database of qualified valuers. Louise Chapman, operations director of VAS Group, which incorporates VAS Panel, said […]
