Appointments

Assetz Capital makes five new regional appointments

Assetz Capital has appointed five new relationship directors since the beginning of November as...

New South East BDM for Castle Trust

Castle Trust has appointed James Adkin as business development manager (BDM) for the South...

New corporate account manager for Accord

Accord Mortgages has appointed Nadine Edwards as its new corporate account manager. Edwards (pictured) is...

BFS appoints managing director for construction finance

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Jim Davis as managing director for construction finance. Joining...

The Coventry BS appoints new CEO

Steve Hughes, currently chief executive of Principality Building Society, is to be appointed as...

SimplyBiz Mortgages appoints head of strategic development

Richard Merrett has joined SimplyBiz Mortgages in the newly created role of head of...

First female chair for IMLA

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has announced that Louisa Sedgwick, director of sales...

Aldermore boosts presence in Southern England

Aldermore has appointed Justin Nel as regional sales manager for the South East and...

LendInvest appoints head of key accounts

LendInvest has promoted Andy Virgo from business development manager (BDM) to head of key...

AMI reveals board election results

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has completed its election process. The results are as...

HL Partnership creates finance director role

HL Partnership (HLP) has appointed Peter Cobley to the newly created position of finance...

Kingsway Asset Finance makes board level promotion

Kingsway Asset Finance has promoted Mike Day to its board of directors. Following a year...

BFS appoints business development manager

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Steve Taylor as business development manager (BDM) for construction...

New chairman at the Buckinghamshire BS

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced the appointment of Dick Jenkins as the new...

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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