Appointments

Aldermore appoints property development managers

Aldermore bank has appointed David Whitehouse and Colin Ness as property development managers covering...

O’Neill Patient hires sales director

O’Neill Patient Group (ONP) has appointed Jessica Szczelkun as its first sales director. She joins...

Just Mortgages employs first online territory broker

Just Mortgages has taken on Rachael Fox as the first person in its new...

Uinsure appoints chief marketing officer

Lauren Bagley is to join Uinsure as its chief marketing officer. Bagley has wide experience...

BFS appoints North West BDM

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has appointed Damian Davies as business development manager in the...

Senior underwriter joins Hope Capital from Together

Mike Watson has been appointed as senior underwriter at Hope Capital. Watson (pictured) joins the short-term...

Optimum Commercial appoints national sales director

Optimum Commercial has appointed Chris Duckworth to the position of national sales director. Duckworth (pictured) has...

Hope Capital unveils apprenticeship programme

Bridging lender Hope Capital has launched an apprenticeship scheme and taken on two new...

SPF Private Clients appoints banker to real estate role

Derek Simpson has joined SPF Private Clients' real estate debt advisory team. Simpson (pictured) previously headed up...

Glenhawk appoints CFO and finance director

Glenhawk has announced the appointments of Andrew Townsend as chief financial officer (CFO) and...

Guardian appoints two new directors

Protection provider Guardian has hired Hilary Banks, current divisional director at Vitality, to the...

David Landen becomes new Hodge CEO

David Landen has been appointed as Hodge’s new chief executive oficer, with immediate effect. ...

United Trust Bank appoints chief commercial officer

Mark Stokes, formerly managing director for commercial banking at Metro Bank, has joined United...

New presidents for Propertymark arms

ARLA Propertymark and NAEA Propertymark have welcomed their new presidents for the year ahead. Angela...

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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