Appointments

Openwork Partnership appoints managing director

The Openwork Partnership has appointed Stuart Dodson to the new role of managing director. He...

Specialist Finance Centre launches SFC Scotland

Specialist Finance Centre (SFC) has announced the launch of its proposition into Scotland as...

Enra Specialist Finance appoints CTO

Enra Specialist Finance has appointed Aris Karidis as its new chief technology officer (CTO). Karidis...

New chair for Society of Mortgage Professionals

Carlos Thibaut, formerly CEO of 360Dotnet, is to become the new chair of the...

Two new hires at Hampshire Trust Bank

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has strengthened its asset finance division with two experienced senior...

Jane Benjamin joins Connect for Intermediaries

Jane Benjamin has been appointed to the newly created role of director of mortgages at...

Reward boosts Yorkshire and North East business development team

Reward Finance Group has appointed Harriet Gibbs as business development director in its Leeds...

LiveMore Capital bolsters leadership team

LiveMore Capital has announced the appointment of Simon Webb as managing director of capital...

Cirencester Friendly hires interim director of distribution and sales

Cirencester Friendly has made another key appointment to its senior management team. Andy Peters has...

New FLA chair announced

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has announced the appointment of Rebecca McNeil as...

UTB appoints asset finance head of sales

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Astrid Michael as its new head of sales...

Alternative Bridging Corporation hires new head of underwriting

Alternative Bridging Corporation has added to its underwriting team with the recruitment of Robin...

More new appointments at Signature Property Finance

Short-term lender Signature Property Finance has announced a series of new appointments, as it...

Three new hires for Hope Capital

Hope Capital has made three new appointments. The lender's sales team has been joined by...

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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