Appointments

Richard Rowntree takes over from John Heron at Paragon

Paragon has appointed Richard Rowntree as managing director of mortgages. Rowntree (pictured) joins from the Bank...

New NED for Together Personal Finance

Together Financial Services has announced the appointment of John Hooper as a non-executive director...

SME funder announces new managing director

Simply, the SME funder, has made five senior promotions. It said the promotions were made...

Foundation Home Loans welcomes five new sales recruits

Foundation Home Loans has expanded its sales team with five new recruits covering both...

Three senior appointments at Uinsure

Uinsure has revamped its management team with three senior appointments. Brionie Hemingway joins as chief...

Tweedy and Batchelor to leave Belmont Green

Belmont Green today announced that Anth Mooney, former director of financial services at Virgin...

Elise Coole becomes Keystone COO

Keystone Property Finance has promoted Elise Coole to the position of chief operating officer...

West Yorkshire Money appoints new director

West Yorkshire Money, a whole of market Directly Authorised firm and part of The...

West One Loans appoints national account manager

West One Loans has appointed Annette Tilbury as national account manager. Tilbury (pictured) joins from Foundation...

Three new business development hires for Hodge

Hodge has appointed a national account manager for the south of England, and two...

VIBE Finance welcomes Kelly Rule to the fold

Specialist finance broker VIBE Finance has appointed Kelly Rule as an appointed representative. Rule (pictured)...

Brightstar creates head of mortgages position

Brightstar Financial has promoted Gina Blagden to the new role of head of mortgages. Blagden...

New NED for ULS Technology

ULS Technology has announced the appointment of Oliver Scott as a non-executive director. Scott is a partner...

Kent Reliance appoints senior BDM for South West

Kent Reliance has announced the appointment of Sarah Hopkins as a senior business development...

COMMENT

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...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

Latest news

Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

Complex income must not become barrier to Scottish homeownership

Mortgage lenders need to keep adapting their criteria as changing working patterns leave growing...

LiveMore raises LTV limits and adds flexibility to equity release overpayments

LiveMore has increased maximum LTVs on mortgages with a repayment element and introduced more...

Cost of collapsed property sales rises to £258m in second quarter

Failed property transactions cost the UK housing market an estimated £257.9m during the second...

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