Appointments

New BDM for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has appointed a new business development manager (BDM) for the South of...

Gatehouse Bank appoints telephone BDM

Gatehouse Bank has promoted Thomas Humphreys to a telephony business development manager position within...

LV= General Insurance appoints sales and marketing director

LV= General Insurance (LV= GI) has appointed Jon Mansley to the newly created role...

Lendinvest appoints underwriting director and BDM

LendInvest has recruited a new director of mortgage underwriting and expanded its business development manager...

Ageas creates new intermediary director roles

Ageas Insurance has created three new directors of distribution roles, in a move which...

Glenhawk appoints group treasurer

Glenhawk has revealed that Daron Kularatnam, formerly of Investec Bank and then Belmont Green...

Masthaven appoints CFO

Masthaven Bank has announced the appointment of Leigh Bartlett as chief financial officer (CFO) and...

Foundation Home Loans hires new brand manager

Foundation Home Loans has announced the appointment of Katie Newell (previously Katie Tucker) as...

Paragon appoints director of mortgage sales

Moray Hulme has been appointed as director of mortgage sales at Paragon. His remit is...

Aspen Bridging appoints finance director

Aspen Bridging has appointed Manjeet Bhogal as finance director, who takes overall control of...

Commercial finance specialist joins Sirius Property Finance

Geoff Vickers has joined the commercial real estate and SME finance team at Sirius...

Signature Private Finance expands lending team

Signature Private Finance has appointed Michelle Walsh to its team of relationship managers. Walsh will be...

Openwork appoints chief operating officer

Openwork has appointed Mark Knowlton as its new chief operating officer (COO). He joins...

Oblix Capital makes COO appointment

Oblix Capital has appointed Stuart Sykes as its new chief operating officer (COO). He is...

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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