Appointments

New chairman for Rightmove

Rightmove has announced the appointment of Andrew Fisher as non-executive chairman with effect from...

Simon Carr rejoins Promise Solutions

Simon Carr, formerly a director at the specialist lending packager and broker, Promise Solutions,...

Fluent Money appoints group chief technology officer

Specialist lending distributor, Fluent Money Group, has appointed Steve Strickland-Wright to the newly created...

Chief examiner in regulated equity release appointed

Graham Evans, head of compliance at Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), has been appointed the...

Accord appoints telephone BDM pair

Accord Mortgages has added its sales division with the appointment of two new telephone...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints sales and marketing director

Emma Hollingworth is to join Bluestone Mortgages as sales and marketing director. Hollingworth (pictured) will...

New CEO of the ASTL appointed

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has revealed that Vic Jannels will become...

Hodge Bank appoints two new directors

Hodge Bank has appointed Graeme Hughes as senior independent director of Julian Hodge Bank...

Masthaven appoints director of intermediaries

Masthaven Bank has promoted Rob Barnard to the newly-created role of director of intermediaries. Barnard...

Two new advisers for Sirius Property Finance

Sirius Property Finance has recruited two new advisers, Charlotte Stanford and Gary Smale. Stanford (pictured) joins...

Skipton International appoints new director of credit

Skipton International has appointed Simon White as its director of credit. White (pictured) joins the...

Paymentshield appoints new regional sales manager

Paymentshield has recruited a new regional sales manager for London and Kent. Simon Parish joins...

LMS appoints new chief financial officer

Conveyancing solutions provider LMS has announced the appointment of Chris Williams as chief financial officer. Williams...

Major management shake-up at Sesame Bankhall Group

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced significant changes to its executive team structure, including...

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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