Appointments

Nucleus Commercial Finance appoints Midlands BDM

Nucleus Commercial Finance has expanded its business development team in the Midlands with the...

Chris Parr joins MT Finance

MT Finance has appointed Chris Parr as its new business development manager (BDM) for...

Nucleus Commercial Finance appoints regional sales director

Nucleus Commercial Finance has expanded its asset based lending team (ABL) in Yorkshire, with...

Bathgate Business Finance appoints BDM

Bathgate Business Finance has welcomed property finance specialist Ben Humphreys as business development manager...

P2P lender appoints non-executive director

Peer-to-peer lender CrowdProperty has announced that John Mould, former CEO of ESF Capital &...

New NED for the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has announced the appointment of Catharine French as a new non-executive...

One Stop Business Finance expands BD team

SME funder One Stop Business Finance (OSBF) has expanded its client servicing team with...

VAS Group hires commercial director

Valuation firm VAS Group has appointed Daniel Owen-Parr to the newly created role of...

Castle Trust appoints director of property credit risk

Castle Trust has recruited Phil Dabbs as its new director of property credit risk. His...

New NEDs at the Dudley

The Dudley Building Society has appointed Nicole Coll and Peter Hubbard as non-executive directors. Coll (pictured) trained...

BEP Systems appoints new COO

Mortgage and savings origination software house, BEP Systems, has announced the appointment of Steve...

Together expands broker relationship team

Underwriting professional Clare Sadler has started her new role at specialist lender Together as...

Skipton International appoints new business development manager

Skipton International has added to its business development team with the appointment of Sean...

Vernon boosts broker team

The Vernon Building Society has expanded its mortgage team with the addition of intermediary...

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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