Appointments

Skipton BS appoints new group chief executive

Skipton Building Society has announced the appointment of Stuart Haire as its new group...

SoMo appoints sales director

Bridging lender SoMo has promoted Jade Keval to the position of sales director. The company...

Hodge appoints commercial lending senior BDM

Hodge has appointed Stuart Benge as its senior business development manager (BDM) for commercial...

Folk2Folk appoints COO

Folk2Folk, the UK-wide marketplace lender for regional SMEs, has appointed Gary Leitch as its...

Bridge Help makes business development hire

Tracey Vaughan is the latest appointment to Bridge Help’s business development team. The Chesterfield-based...

Sirius Property Finance appoints senior associate

Sirius Property Finance has announced the recruitment of Ashley Elkin as senior associate. Elkin (pictured) has...

Rob Barnard to rejoin Pepper Money

Rob Barnard is to return to Pepper Money in the new role of director...

Twenty7Tec adds new COO to board

Twenty7Tec has appointed Mike Clifford to join its board as chief operating officer (COO), following...

CIExpert appoints propositions & distribution director

CIExpert has announced that Paul Roberts has been appointed to the role of propositions...

West One Loans appoints two new bridging BDMs

West One Loans has appointed two new business development managers as part of a...

Yorkshire BS appoints interim CEO

Yorkshire Building Society has announced that Alasdair Lenman has been appointed as interim chief...

Paradigm welcomes new mortgage helpdesk manager

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the appointment of a new mortgage helpdesk manager. Diane Jones...

Crystal Specialist Finance adds trio to sales team

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has bolstered its sales function with three new hires. Mollie...

Time Finance appoints East Midlands BDM

Time Finance has appointed Ewan Clarke as business development manager (BDM) in its invoice...

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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