Appointments

eConveyancer hires new national account manager

eConveyancer has added its sales team with the addition of Graham Beckett as national...

SME bank hires head of client relationship management

Allica Bank has announced the appointment of Emma Lane as head of client relationship...

Pink Pig Loans appoints head of residential mortgages & protection

Pink Pig Loans has announced the appointment of Kate Pedley as its new head...

Five new hires for packager

Positive Lending has announced five new hires as it continues its growth and expansion...

New BDM for Time Finance

Time Finance has appointed Jake Bebbington as business development manager (BDM) to drive its...

Generation Home appoints head of credit

New mortgage lender Generation Home (GenH) has announced the appointment of John Bridgman as...

Hodge appoints new business development manager

Hodge has appointed Hema Patel as the new business development manager for the north...

Tenet makes senior operations hire

Tenet Group has appointed Julie Woolmer as compliance operations director. Woolmer (pictured) joins from Quilter Financial...

Jon Hall joins OSB Group

Jon Hall has joined OSB Group in his new role as group managing director,...

UTB appoints Mike Walters to new sales director role

United Trust Bank (UTB) has restructured its mortgage sales team. Mike Walters heads up the...

Visionary Finance appoints head of operations

Specialist buy-to-let and new build broker, Visionary Finance, has appointed Neill Henderson as head...

BFS makes underwriting hire

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has welcomed Sarah Cropper as a new underwriter to its...

Fleet Mortgages revamps senior management team

Fleet Mortgages has made a number of changes and promotions within its senior management...

CHL Mortgages hires BDM for South West England and Wales

CHL Mortgages has appointed Stephen Wrigley as a business development manager (BDM) for the...

COMMENT

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

Latest news

TAB promotes Bonner to chief risk officer

Specialist lender TAB has appointed Jack Bonner as chief risk officer as it continues...

Skipton BS lowers residential rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across parts of its residential mortgage range from...

AMI refreshes brand to reflect advice, mortgages and insurance focus

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has launched a brand refresh intended to reflect its...

IMLA guide explains why fixed mortgage rates can rise before Bank Rate moves

IMLA has published a report and five-minute guide to help advisers explain how swap...

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