Appointments

New chair announced for OneFamily

OneFamily has announced that its chair of nearly seven years, Christina McComb, is to...

Assetz Capital boosts Northern origination team

Assetz Capital has promoted two staff members to strengthen its growing origination team in...

Upton to lead HTB’s development finance division

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) is expanding its development finance proposition to nearly double to...

Pepper Money appoints head of sales for second charge mortgages

Pepper Money has promoted Tom Whitney to the position of head of sales for...

Enra appoints ex-Loans Engine boss as programme manager

Enra Specialist Finance has appointed Ryan McGrath as its new programme manager to deliver...

Brilliant Solutions promotes for new head of key accounts role

Ivan Vizor has been promoted to the newly formed role of head of key...

Skipton BS appoints first female chair

Skipton Building Society is appointing Gwyn Burr as its new chair, subject to regulatory...

Castle Trust Bank appoints director of proposition & strategy

Castle Trust Bank has appointed Anna Lewis to the newly created role of director of...

Darlington BS bolsters executive team

Darlington Building Society has appointed two new executive team members from within its own...

FCA appoints new Practitioner Panel chair

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Direct Line Group CEO, Penny James, as chair...

Sam Marshall becomes Pepper Money NED

Pepper Money has announced the appointment of Sam Marshall as a non-executive director following...

BFS appoints two new recruits

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has appointed a new HR manager and credit control assistant. Gill...

Pure Retirement revamps intermediary sales team

Pure Retirement has expanded its intermediary sales team, providing its advisers with access to support...

HLPartnership appoints head of supervision

HLPartnership (HLP) has expanded its compliance team with the appointment of Trisha Hanratty as...

COMMENT

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Closing the protection gap starts with informed clients

Millions of people have no protection insurance coverage and could be left vulnerable in the event of a death in the family, serious illness...

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...

Latest news

Property transactions edge lower as mortgage costs weigh on market

UK residential property transactions fell in August, with HM Revenue & Customs recording 95,220...

First-time buyer homes could cost almost £24k more by 2030

The average price paid by a first-time buyer in England could rise by almost...

Precise joins LMS Panel Link for specialist residential cases

Precise has joined LMS's Panel Link service as the specialist lender looks to reduce...

LSL warns first-time buyers could pause plans ahead of new deposit scheme

LSL Financial Services has welcomed the government's proposed 2.5% deposit scheme for new-build homes,...

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