Appointments

Knowledge Bank appoints sales and marketing director

Knowledge Bank has recruited a new sales and marketing manager as part of its...

Central & Mercantile Trust grow BDM team

Central and Mercantile Trust have expanded their field sales operations with the appointment of...

HL Partnership bolsters compliance team

Mortgage and protection network, HL Partnership, has announced the appointment of Joanne Osborne to...

Countrywide Surveying Services makes two SMT promotions

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has announced two key promotions to its senior management team. Kharla...

The Mortgage Lender hires head of specialist distribution

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has recruited Chris Kirby as head of specialist distribution and...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints Midlands key account manager

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Chris Lamming as key account manager for...

TMA hires four specialist area supervision managers

TMA has announced the appointment of Alison Stidolph, Paul Walton, Roger Holmes and Sara...

Paragon appoints new regional sales manager

Paragon Bank has bolstered its buy-to-let mortgage sales team with the appointment of Roger...

Sirius Property Finance appoints senior associate

Sirius Property Finance has bolstered its investment team with the hiring of Kelly Rule...

FCA announces three senior appointments

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed two new directors of authorisations as it...

Robert Owen joins Black & White Bridging as NED

Black & White Bridging has appointed Robert Owen to its board as non-executive director. Owen...

BestAdvice appoints special projects editor

Simon Read has joined BestAdvice as its special projects editor. Read (pictured) will initially be...

Cirencester Friendly appoints new CEO

Income protection specialist Cirencester Friendly has announced the appointment of Andy Morris as CEO,...

Assurant Intermediary appoints new BDM

Assurant Intermediary has appointed David Carr as business development manager (BDM) covering Wales, Midlands...

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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