Appointments

United Trust Bank appoints director of bridging

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Sundeep Patel to the role of director of...

Landbay appoints new regional account manager

Landbay has appointed Paula Dowson to the role of regional account manager for the...

Greenfield Mortgages makes senior hire

Greenfield Mortgages has recruited Richard Keen to lead its corporate and national key account...

Recognise Bank recruits bridging specialist

SME lender Recognise Bank has appointed Andrew Keehner as its latest relationship manager, with...

ASTL unveils new executive board appointments

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has appointed three new members to its...

LifeSearch appoints chief data officer

Life insurance broker, LifeSearch, has appointed Sam Stafford in the newly created role of...

Rockstead unveils director of operations

Rockstead, the due diligence and business review provider, has added to its management team...

One Stop Invoice Finance appoints operations and risk director

East Yorkshire-based SME funding specialist, One Stop invoice finance, has announced the appointment of...

West One Loans makes second charge team appointments

West One Loans has bolstered its second charge team with a series of new...

Largemortgageloans.com appoints three new advisers

Largemortgageloans.com (LML), the provider of bespoke mortgage advice to high net worth (HNW) individuals,...

Family BS appoints BDM for Central London

Amar Mashru has been appointed as a business development manager (BDM) at the Family...

HLPartnership appoints protection development specialist

Mortgage and protection network, HL Partnership, has appointed Ian Pratt to help drive its...

Shawbrook appoints South and Central BDM

Shawbrook has expanded its field sales team with the appointment of Craig Smith as...

New BDM for the Saffron

Saffron Building Society has announced the appointment of Lee Williams as its latest hire...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

Latest news

Eleos launches income protection with redundancy cover

Eleos Life has launched an income protection policy covering redundancy alongside illness and injury...

Trade bodies welcome first-time buyer scheme but call for careful design

Mortgage trade bodies have welcomed the government's proposed Your First Home scheme, while warning...

Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...

Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...

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