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Blogs & articles
12th April 2021

The Brightstar Group has returned its offices to full occupancy as part of its phased…

Blogs & articles
23rd March 2021

In his recent Budget, chancellor Rishi Sunak, outlined a three-part plan to support economic recovery…

Blogs & articles
16th March 2021

Last autumn, I wrote a number of articles in the trade press about research we…

Press / People Development
8th March 2021

Monday 8th March is International Women’s Day (IWD) and, as we have done for many…

Blogs & articles
3rd March 2021

Property owners across the UK spent £39bn on home improvements in 2020, and there was…

Blogs & articles
2nd March 2021

Brightstar Financial has agreed an exclusive partnership with Mortgage Magic to deliver the case management…

Blogs & articles / Second charge mortgages
16th February 2021

Sometimes relatively small innovations can change the way you think about using a whole category…

Blogs & articles / Short-term lending
16th February 2021

Realistically, a mortgage product that is applied for now is unlikely to complete before the…

Brightstar / Press
27th January 2021

Brightstar Financial has renewed its partnership with Twenty7Tec for a further 3 years as part…

Blogs & articles
14th January 2021

Brightstar Financial has partnered with Selina Finance to provide semi-exclusive distribution of the lender’s overdraft-style…

Blogs & articles
7th December 2020

It was my misfortune at the time, but ultimately one of my greatest lessons, to…

Blogs & articles
3rd December 2020

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that so much is beyond our control –…

Blogs & articles
24th November 2020

Fear of the unknown is humans’ oldest and most naked response. When the UK went…

Blogs & articles
19th November 2020

The day, launched in 1999, is designed to commemorate the positive value that men bring…

Blogs & articles
18th November 2020

At times like this, the temptation is to work harder to cram in as much business…

Second charge mortgages / Blogs & articles
12th November 2020

We’ve had a big focus on second charge lending at Brightstar Financial in recent months.…

Blogs & articles
27th October 2020

At Brightstar, we recently conducted some research amongst a group of mortgage brokers who worked…

Commercial finance / Blogs & articles
21st October 2020

The market is turbo charged at the moment, but what happens next year when the…

Blogs & articles
16th October 2020

At Brightstar we recently carried out some research among a group of more than 1,000…

Blogs & articles
15th October 2020

You may have seen coverage recently of some research we carried out at Brightstar amongst…

Blogs & articles
15th October 2020

Sirius Property Finance, part of The Brightstar Group, has announced its international expansion with the…

Blogs & articles
28th September 2020

The current market is throwing up a unique set of challenges. Many brokers are reporting…

Second charge mortgages / Blogs & articles
24th September 2020

Three quarters of brokers (74%) do not tell their clients that they offer second charge…

Blogs & articles
17th September 2020

In today’s market, complex is the new normal and this means that more of your…

Blogs & articles
15th September 2020

Yay   Cloe Atkinson, managing director, Mortgage Engine The stamp duty holiday was…

Blogs & articles
8th September 2020

The impact of COVID-19 will continue long beyond the lockdown ends, social distancing is lifted,…

Second charge mortgages / Blogs & articles
21st August 2020

The scarcity of high LTV mortgages has been well documented in recent weeks. Data from…

Press / Commercial finance
17th August 2020

Where there is change, there is always opportunity and we have certainly seen a huge…

Brightstar / Press
11th August 2020

The Brightstar Group has become the first business in the mortgage market to launch its…

Press / People Development
31st July 2020

The Brightstar Group has signed Aaron Beard, a young Essex and former England U19’s cricketer,…