Groundbreaking Growth for BFS in 2016
Bridging Finance Solutions has revealed another outstanding year of growth and expansion for 2016. With a 52% increase in turnover in comparison to the same year to date the previous year, 2016 has also seen an increase in staff, boosting the team from eight to fourteen. Steve Barber, Managing Director at Bridging Finance Solutions commented: […]
North and South – A Narrowing Gap?
Bridging Finance Solutions has been funding property development, conversions and refurbishments in the North for the past decade. A geographically specific market, predications suggest that house prices in the North of England will rise significantly during the next five years and the firm is therefore expecting a particularly buoyant market. BFS Managing Director, Steve Barber […]
Bridging Finance Solutions Main Sponsor of Prestigious Finance Event
Bridging Finance Solutions has revealed its main sponsorship of this year’s Liverpool Society of Chartered Accountants annual dinner. The event, considered a highlight of the financial calendar within the city, is being held in The Crowne Plaza on the 25th November and will welcome over 400 professionals from across the financial sector. Steve Barber, Managing Director […]
BFS Launch New Development Finance Package for Developers and Investors
Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has restructured and relaunched, ‘the Hunters Licence’, a finance package designed specifically for developers and investors. BFS’s Jeanette Jones has championed the product, citing a need from the growing development sector as the key objectives behind the launch. She explained: “The development sector is undoubtedly growing, alongside a renewed interest in […]
BFS Sponsor Your Move Property Awards
Bridging Finance Solutions is sponsoring the Best Commercial Let category of the Your Move Property Awards. The glittering event, set to take place on Thursday 20 October in the Lutyens Crypt, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, celebrates major achievements within the property sector across the North West. This is the first year that Bridging Finance Solutions has […]
What Impact Will Brexit Have on the UK Property Market?
Ahead of the vote, the Treasury voiced dire warnings of prices plunging by up to 18 per cent while price indices from lenders Halifax and Nationwide registered slowdowns in the rate that house prices are growing. For example, the Halifax index for April reveals the smallest quarterly and annual increase for five months. The lender’s […]
The Great North South Housing Divide
The difference between average house prices in the North and South of England is now £163,000, according to a report by a UK building society. That’s almost as much as cost of the average British home. Nationwide said that “prices in the North are now less than half those in the South, a record low.” Will the North […]
Short Term Funding Helps Farmer Make Career Change
Client: Graham Hogg Value: £35,000 Former farmer, Graham Hogg, left the industry following a long career, relocating from his former farmhouse in Darlington and in need of a new home. With a change in career as a self-employed builder, Graham was keen to purchase a property which required some modernisation works in order to increase […]
Combating Fraud in the Specialist Lending Market
Head of Underwriting at Bridging Finance Solutions, Rachel Davies, responds to the following question regarding fraud in the specialist lending marketplace: Is fraud a growing concern? What changes have businesses in the specialist lending market introduced in the last 12 months to combat fraud? “Yes, fraud is a growing concern for all lenders, as fraudsters develop […]
BFS take the stand at NACFB Commercial Finance Expo 2016
Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) will be exhibiting once again at key industry event, the NACFB Commercial Finance Expo 2016. The event is being held at the Pavilion in Birmingham’s NEC on the 15th June and in its seventh year, is set to be biggest exhibition yet! The event is open to anyone with an interest in Commercial […]
