Mortgage’s Got Talent has added two more industry names to its judging panel, with Mortgage Brain’s Sharon Marshall and Niki Cooke signing up for the charity event.
The pair will help decide which of the mortgage industry’s hidden talents...
Crystal Specialist Finance has appointed Jane Benjamin as managing director of its Network and Club division, with responsibility for developing its specialist finance offering...
LendInvest Mortgages has appointed Matt Taylor as sales director, with responsibility for its intermediary distribution strategy across buy-to-let, bridging and residential lending.
Taylor (pictured) joins...
More than 22% of first-time buyer mortgage applicants in London and Greater London could be excluded from Andy Burnham's proposed 'Your First Home' scheme...
Sirius Finance has entered into a referral partnership with JRM Wealth Management, enabling its brokers to introduce clients seeking advice on pensions, wealth management...
Paragon Bank has promoted Matt Fulford to head of specialist lending in its mortgages division, with responsibility for developing its approach to complex buy-to-let cases and overseeing a new portfolio relationship management team.
Fulford (pictured), who has worked at...
More than a third of homeowners and prospective buyers want the government to review council tax bands and provide greater support with payments, according to research from specialist lender Together.
The lender's survey found that 37% of respondents identified...
My Legal Club has appointed three law firms to its conveyancing panel as it looks to provide mortgage brokers and estate agents with a wider choice of legal services and dedicated transaction support.
Mason Thomas Law, Bookers & Bolton...
Gatehouse Capital has appointed Hanif Hussain as business development manager for Scotland as it seeks to expand its intermediary distribution network north of the border.
Hussain (pictured) joins from Shawbrook Bank, where he held a business development manager role,...
Business development managers (BDMs) have long played an important role in the relationship between lenders and brokers.
Traditionally, much of that relationship has centered around...
Patrick Bamford entered financial services when mortgages were largely unregulated, specialist lending barely had a name and getting on the housing ladder was simply...
There has been plenty of discussion recently about the future of buy-to-let, whether landlords can continue to make their investments work, and what the...
Since getting involved with Rotherham United Women I've realised football and business have quite a lot in common.
One thing in particular: growth can hide...
More than half of first-time buyers moving from rented accommodation into homeownership are taking on higher monthly housing costs, according to research from Hamptons.
Analysis of Connells Group data found that 56% of former tenants who bought their first home in September 2026 had a...
One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all cases using our All-Inclusive Remortgage (AIR) product during Q3, making it comfortably the biggest lender for AIR business during the...
It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...
LSL Financial Services has appointed Matt Surridge as propositions director, a newly created position overseeing the development of broker services across its Primis network and TMA Club.
Surridge (pictured) will work with appointed representative and directly authorised firms to identify improvements to the support and...
