Appointments

Martin Sims joins Rockstead crew

Martin Sims has joined Rockstead, the due diligence and business review provider. Sims has over...

Tenet appoints learning & development head

Tenet Group has appointed Anthony Sheard as head of learning and development (L&D). the hire...

CHL bolsters BDM team with North of England hire

Specialist buy-to-let lender, CHL Mortgages, has added Aidan Walker to its business development manager...

Revamp for Paymentshield sales team as James Watson retires

General insurance provider Paymentshield has created two director of distribution roles caused by the...

OSB Group boosts specialist finance team

OSB Group has expanded its specialist finance team through the appointment of three new account...

UTB appoints BTL head in advance of new product launch

UTB Mortgages for Intermediaries has announced the appointment of Barry Luhmann as head of...

Foundation promotes pair to director level

Foundation Home Loans has announced the promotions of Grant Hendry and Mark Whitear. Hendry becomes...

LiveMore expands sales and broker support

Later life lender, LiveMore, has made two new senior appointments, expanding its sales and...

United Trust Bank appoints asset finance underwriter

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Essie Quinnell as an underwriter in its asset finance...

Hope Capital makes two sales hires

Hope Capital has expanded its sales team with a double appointment. Sam Lea has taken...

Whitehall Capital builds team to support growth plans

Whitehall Capital is planning to double its bridging book and has made two strategic...

Health Shield appoints new CEO

Health Shield Friendly Society has announced the appointment of Jacqui Carr as its new...

Aspen Bridging appoints head of credit

Aspen Bridging has promoted Harry Baker to a newly created role of head of...

Alternative Bridging expands sales team

Alternative Bridging Corporation has bolstered its field sales operation with the appointment of Jon...

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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