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Ask an SME developer why a promising site slipped away (as we often do in passing conversations), and you will often hear the same answer: someone else had already tied it up. Not bought it. Tied it up. England's land market runs on two layers: the first is the title register, which tells you who owns a piece of land; the second, much harder to see, is responsible for ...

Every September the property market has its frantic ‘back-to-school’ moment, and this year the headline writers had their story ready. Asking prices up, plus housebuilding starts up, chuck in Interest rates on hold. Must mean a recovery, surely? Look a little closer and a different picture emerges, one that matters far more to anyone building homes, funding them, or in...

If you ask most people in finance what A.I. will do for their sector, you will typically hear the same three answers: faster response times to win business, automated underwriting elements to process business faster, and stronger, faster summarisation of data to intensify decision-making. However, as we all know, development finance is a stubbornly physical, intensely ...

For years, the story everyone tells of non-bank lending in UK property development finance has begun and ended as a tale about rate-cycle side effects. Base rates spiked, high-street banks got nervous, specialist lenders filled the gap, and the story goes that once rates come back down, the banks will come back too, business as usual. That story is comfortable. It's al...