Appointments

Bank of Ireland appoints North East BDM

Bank of Ireland UK has announced the appointment of Mike Furlong as business development...

New board directors at the Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has announced the appointment of new directors, following the latest...

Phoebus Software appoints new COO  

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has appointed Mehran Radfar to be its new chief operating...

Tenet appoints group risk and regulatory director

Caroline Bradley, Tenet’s group risk and regulatory director, has decided to step down from...

MT Finance appoints London senior BDM

MT Finance has appointed Rory Cleary as senior business development manager for London. Cleary joins...

The Harpenden appoints customer ops director

Raj Bains has been appointed as the Harpenden Building Society’s director of customer operations. He...

Reward Finance Group makes board appointment

Reward Finance Group has appointed Steve Noble as managing director of its North West...

More 2 Life appoints new national sales manager and BDM

Equity release lender More 2 Life has appointed Fran Green as national sales manager...

The Dudley makes board-level promotion

Samantha Ward has been appointed to the Dudley Building Society’s main board as commercial...

New North BDM for the Nottingham

Janet Frame has joined the Nottingham For Intermediaries as its new business development manager...

More 2 Life creates head of servicing role

Equity release lender More 2 Life has created a new head of servicing role...

Reward Finance Group appoints group MD

Nick Smith has been promoted to the position of group managing director of Reward Finance...

Ageas UK CEO steps down

After 10 years with Ageas UK, Andy Watson has decided to step down from...

SimplyBiz Group appoints COO

The SimplyBiz Group has announced the appointment of Kyle Augustin to the position of...

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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