Appointments

The Ipswich appoints head of mortgage sales

The Ipswich Building Society has announced the appointment of Charlotte Grimshaw as head of...

Aldermore makes asset finance sales hire

Aldermore has appointed Rania Pugh as its new head of sales support for asset...

CSF appoints group sales and marketing director

Jason Berry has been appointed group sales and marketing director at Crystal Specialist Finance...

Smartr365 appoints product engineering lead

Smartr365 has today announced the appointment of Edwin Halakooei as product engineering lead. Halakooei (pictured)...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) appoints new build consultant

Douglas Cochrane is to join Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) as new build strategic consultant...

Two new hires for UTB

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed a new director and manager in its development...

New NEDs for short-term lender

Atelier Capital Partners has announced the appointment of two non-executive directors. Mark Burton is the...

New sales director for Click2Check

Click2Check has announced the appointment of Michael Taylor as its new director of sales. ...

Bibby Financial Services appoints global CEO

Jonathan Andrew is to join Bibby Financial Services as global CEO on 1 September. Andrew...

Advise Wise appoints head of distribution

Advise Wise has announced the appointment of Craig Faulkiner as its head of distribution. Faulkiner...

Allica Bank appoints new business relationship manager

Allica Bank has announced the internal appointment of Jonathan Prince as business relationship manager...

New CEO for Ceta Insurance parent

Digital insurance distributor ATEC Group, which trades under the brand names of Ceta Insurance,...

New chair at the Dudley

The Dudley Building Society has announced the appointment of Peter Hubbard, the current chair...

Foundation Home Loans hires product marketing specialist

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Sarah Wade as its product marketing specialist. Wade (pictured) was most recently...

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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