An article written by Barry Searle, Managing Director, Property at Castle Trust Bank for Brightstar’s ezine. Various pandemic-fuelled revelations have shaped the past couple of years, from the so-called ‘death of the high street’, to the realisation that remote...
An article written by Barry Searle, Managing Director, Property at Castle Trust Bank for Brightstar’s ezine. A growing number of landlords are choosing to diversify their portfolio, from letting out property on a standard AST to investing in a house of multiple...
Stewart Simpson, Second Charge Mortgage Specialist at Brightstar Financial In June 2022, the Bank of England’s (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee raised the base rate to 1.25%, in a move that came as a surprise to very few. While this is still a historically relatively...
Join Alex Hammond - Director, SquareOne Media, Jamie Pritchard - Director of Sales, Glenhawk and Jo Logan - bridging and development specialist, Brightstar Financial, as they discuss how changes to Permitted Development Rights (PDR) have created opportunities for...
Join Alex Hammond - Director, SquareOne Media, Stewart Simpson - Second charge specialist, Brightstar and Maeve Ward - Commerical Director, Central Trust, as they discuss why and how brokers should be focusing on proactive relationships with their clients. This topic...
Originally published in Bridging Loan Directory Leonardo di Caprio is not the first Hollywood star to prefer younger women. But the Leo Index is now almost as well known as the FTSE (or maybe that should be the VIX). The viral graph shows Leo, 47, has never yet dated...
By Michelle Westley, Head of Marketing at Brightstar Financial Research by Brightstar Financial and West One has found that 83% of brokers offer bridging finance to their clients, even though only 67% claim to have at least a good knowledge of the sector. The survey,...
Stewart Simpson, Second Charge Mortgage Specialist The latest Bank of England Base Rate increase was more or less inevitable as the global situation continues to add fuel to rampant inflation. After many months of a Bank Base Rate sitting just above zero, rates are...
Michelle Westley, Head of Marketing, Brightstar Financial The latest data from the ASTL shows that the final quarter of last year was a record period for bridging, with both the value of completions and of applications reaching an all-time high. The figures, which are...
Written by Adam Fulcher, Commercial Finance Specialist The cost-of-living crisis isn’t just impacting consumers. Businesses too face a huge increase in energy prices, the impact of which is exacerbated for those businesses that use a lot of power. It’s a sad reality...
Episode 1: Broker versus regulator – second charge mortgages Join Alex Hammond – director, SquareOne Media, Stewart Simpson – second charge mortgage specialist, Brightstar and Caroline Mirakian – sales director, Optimum Credit, as they discuss what is causing brokers...
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