Appointments

Masthaven appoints CFO

Masthaven Bank has announced the appointment of Leigh Bartlett as chief financial officer (CFO) and...

Foundation Home Loans hires new brand manager

Foundation Home Loans has announced the appointment of Katie Newell (previously Katie Tucker) as...

Paragon appoints director of mortgage sales

Moray Hulme has been appointed as director of mortgage sales at Paragon. His remit is...

Aspen Bridging appoints finance director

Aspen Bridging has appointed Manjeet Bhogal as finance director, who takes overall control of...

Commercial finance specialist joins Sirius Property Finance

Geoff Vickers has joined the commercial real estate and SME finance team at Sirius...

Signature Private Finance expands lending team

Signature Private Finance has appointed Michelle Walsh to its team of relationship managers. Walsh will be...

Openwork appoints chief operating officer

Openwork has appointed Mark Knowlton as its new chief operating officer (COO). He joins...

Oblix Capital makes COO appointment

Oblix Capital has appointed Stuart Sykes as its new chief operating officer (COO). He is...

Pair return to Brilliant Solutions

Mortgage club and specialist packager Brilliant Solutions has appointed a senior business development manager and...

Key Group appoints new non-exec director

Key Group has appointed Gillian Kent as non-executive director. Kent (pictured) has almost 30 years...

Accord Mortgages appoints corporate account manager

Accord Mortgages has added a new corporate account manager with the appointment of Andy Millard. Millard...

Pepper hires regional development manager for Yorkshire and NE

Pepper Money has appointed Max Hill as its new regional development manager for Yorkshire...

Signature Private Finance hires relationship manager

Privately-owned principal lender, Signature Private Finance, has promoted Nazia Yaqub to the position of...

One Stop Business Finance expands operations and brokering team

Alternative SME funding specialist, One Stop Business Finance, has appointed Collette Munson to its...

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Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

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I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

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Housing market stalls as demand dips and sales slide

The UK housing market’s fragile recovery faltered in July as higher borrowing costs and...

Premier League stadium area with highest house price premium revealed

Burnley’s Turf Moor has emerged as the Premier League’s most lucrative stadium location in...

Kuflink launches in-house legal department to speed up deals

Bridging lender Kuflink has launched its own in-house legal department, in what it describes...

Children wield growing influence over UK home buying decisions

Children are exerting unprecedented sway over property choices with 74% of families saying their...