Appointments

Octane Capital makes sales and credit appointments

Octane Capital has made two new hires. Shrena Patel has started as senior business development...

Secure Trust hires new portfolio & structuring director  

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has appointed Graham Brew as a portfolio & structuring director ...

Allica Bank hires SW business relationship manager

Allica Bank has announced the appointment of Danny McMurdo as business relationship manager for...

New chair for Openwork parent

Openwork Holdings Limited (OHL), Openwork's parent company, has appointed Andy Smart as its new chair. Smart...

Mortgage Engine hires senior relationship manager

Mortgage Engine has appointed Natalie Strong as senior relationship manager. Strong (pictured) joins the...

Melanie Spencer to replace Phil Whitehouse at MCI Club

Phil Whitehouse has decided to step down from his position as head of MCI Mortgage...

Responsible Group appoints former Confused.com CEO

Carlton Hood has been appointed CEO of Responsible Group, which includes the retirement mortgage...

Shawbrook appoints Midlands & South Wales regional development manager

Matthew Taylor has joined Shawbrook Bank as regional development manager. He is tasked with increasing support...

Aldermore makes BDM appointment

Aldermore has appointed Glenn Souter as business development manager (BDM) in its invoice finance...

ULS Technology appoints new directors

Conveyancing panel manager and technology solutions provider, ULS Technology, has appointed two new directors...

Hodge announces boardroom changes

Hodge has today announced a number of changes to its board, including the appointment...

Paragon appoints regional sales manager

Paragon Bank has added to its buy-to-let mortgage sales team with the appointment of...

Allica Bank appoints business relationship manager

SME business bank, Allica Bank, has announced the appointment of Stephen Spinks as business...

Beaumont becomes The Mortgage Lender CEO following FCA approval

Peter Beaumont has secured regulatory approval for his appointment as The Mortgage Lender's new...

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

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...

Student loan repayments squeeze first-time buyer deposit savings

More than 1.5 million young adults believe student loan repayments are making it harder...

The Exeter moves Woodley into healthcare development role

The Exeter has appointed Karen Woodley as head of healthcare development, giving her responsibility...

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