Appointments

Castle Trust Bank appoints new BDM

Castle Trust Bank has added to its sales team with the recruitment of Ashley...

Second charge lender unveils new CEO

Spring Finance has revealed that Gavin Diamond will be joining as its new chief...

New leader at the helm of Equity Release Associates

Sara Robinson, director of adviser services at Equity Release Associates (ERA), is to take...

The Mortgage Lender promotes pair to key roles

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has promoted Charlie Stack and Anum Mahmood to key account...

Assetz Capital reappoints relationship director

Specialist lender Assetz Capital has reappointed relationship director Jonathan Kirk. Based in Yorkshire, Kirk...

Generation Home appoints commercial director

Generation Home has appointed Pete Dockar as commercial director. He joins from Virgin Money, where...

Newcastle Intermediaries appoints national sales manager

Mark Wilkinson has been promoted to national sales manager at Newcastle Intermediaries following three...

Uinsure welcome two non-executive directors

Uinsure has announced the appointment of two new non-executive directors. Dan Wright joins as non-executive...

Vida appoints chief risk officer 

Vida has announced the appointment of Fraser McNeill as chief risk officer (CRO) and...

Monument boosts bridging team

Monument has bolstered its bridging team with the recruitment of Fatlum Lushi. Lushi joins the challenger...

New NED at the Yorkshire

Yorkshire Building Society has announced that Angela Darlington has joined its board as a...

Alternative Bridging appoints case manager

Alternative Bridging Corporation has expanded its support function with the appointment of a new...

UTB appoints key accounts manager for buy-to-let

UTB Mortgages for Intermediaries has announced the appointment of Stewart Green as buy-to-let key...

Bridge Help appoints new BDM

Commercial bridging loan provider, Bridge Help, has appointed a new business development manager. Tina Panayi...

COMMENT

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

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...

Latest news

Higher mortgage rates put buyers in driving seat as sales fall

Higher mortgage rates have pushed buyers firmly into the driving seat, with agreed sales...

Stent to take over as MAB finance chief as Imlach leaves board

Mortgage Advice Bureau has confirmed Jo Stent will become group chief financial officer and...

Virgin Money raises residential fixed rates by up to 0.20%

Virgin Money is increasing a range of residential purchase, remortgage and product transfer fixed...

Government commits to licensing property agents but detail remains unclear

The government has committed to mandatory licensing and qualifications for property agents as part...

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