Appointments

Key Group appoints head of strategic partner marketing

Key Group has announced the appointment of Richard Brook as its new head of...

Two new marketing hires at Hope Capital

Bridging lender Hope Capital has appointed Emily Crowe as PR and social media executive and Kevin...

LV= appoints GI partnership director

LV= General Insurance (LV= GI) has announced the appointment of Simon Hird as its...

Shawbrook grows sales desk team

Shawbrook Bank has expanded its property finance division's sales desk with the appointment of...

UTB appoints new senior manager for property development

United Trust Bank (UTB) has hired a new senior manager supporting housebuilders and developers...

Jeremy Duncombe to become Accord MD

The Yorkshire Building Society is appointing Jeremy Duncombe as managing director of its intermediary...

SmartSearch looks globally with new hire

Anti-money laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch is looking to grow its global reach with the...

United Trust Bank appoints CEO

Harley Kagan, currently group Managing director of United Trust Bank (UTB), will become the...

Hodge’s interim mortgage boss becomes Welsh graduate scheme adviser

Ryan Davies, interim managing director of mortgages at Hodge has become an advisory board...

Three new hires at Catalyst Property Finance

Catalyst Property Finance has made new appointments for both its new business and credit/underwriting...

More2life creates operations director position

Equity release lender, more2life, has created a new director of operations role and promoted...

HTB appoints chief risk officer

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Paul Collyer as its new...

New CEO at Target Group

Target Group has announced that Dr Roger Newman has been appointed as its chief...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints head of sales & marketing

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Reece Beddall as its new head of sales...

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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