Appointments

Property Master hires digital marketing head

Online buy-to-let mortgage broker, Property Master, has appointed Christopher Brown as its head of...

LiveMore Capital appoints sales account manager

LiveMore has announced the appointment of Margarita Genovesa as sales account manager. She will support...

FCA makes senior appointments

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Sheldon Mills as the new executive director...

UTB appoints key accounts manager

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Hannah Oades as key accounts manager. The hire has...

New CFO at Kensington Mortgages

Kensington Mortgages has appointed Alexander Filshie as its new chief financial officer (CFO). He replaces...

VAS Group promotes quartet

VAS Group has announced four promotions, which in turn has led to two new...

New chair for AMI

Andrew Montlake, managing director of Coreco Mortgages, is the new chair of the Association...

Trio of senior hires at AML firm

SmartSearch expanded its senior team with three new appointments. The anti-money laundering (AML) firm has...

Suros Capital appoints account managers

Asset-backed short-term lender, Suros Capital, has announced the appointment of Simone Ferreira and Katie...

Allica Bank appoints mortgage operations manager 

SME lender, Allica Bank, has appointed Carly Nutkins as mortgage operations manager. Nutkins (pictured) joins from Redwood...

First 4 Bridging hires head of intermediary relations

Erica Pearce has been appointed as head of intermediary relations at First 4 Bridging...

Two new faces at VIBE Finance

Specialist finance broker, VIBE Finance, has announced the appointment of Craig Smith as a...

New appointments at Stonebridge

Mortgage and insurance network, Stonebridge , has announced a number of new appointments . Recent new...

David Copland joins Property Master

David Copland has been appointed as Property Master's new business development director. Copland (pictured) joins...

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

Government commits to licensing property agents but detail remains unclear

The government has committed to mandatory licensing and qualifications for property agents as part...

Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

SortRefer expands faster conveyancing service after pilot cuts completion times

SortRefer has rolled out its Enhanced conveyancing service to all registered brokers after a...

Octane revives specialist buy-to-let range with loans up to £15m

Octane Capital has returned to the specialist buy-to-let market with a range offering loans...

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