Appointments

LV= GI appoints corporate responsibility director

LV= General Insurance (LV= GI) has today appointed Rodney Assock as its new corporate...

New CEO for Royal London

Barry O’Dwyer has joined Royal London to take up the role of chief executive. He...

New key account manager for mortgages at Aldermore

Aldermore has appointed James Young as a new key account manager within its retail...

VAS Group hires technical panel director

VAS Group has appointed Ian Wimpenny to the newly created role of technical panel...

FCA appoints executive director of risk and compliance oversight

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that Sheree Howard has been appointed as executive...

PMS appoints regional manager quartet

PMS Mortgage Club has appointed four new regional key account managers to support its directly...

Bridging stalwart joins Bath & West Finance

Matthew Anderson has joined bridging lender Bath & West as commercial director. Anderson (pictured) has...

Just Mortgages appoints three areas directors to self-employed division

Three new area directors have joined Just Mortgages’ self-employed division. Jonathan Phillips joined last week,...

John Truswell leaves Together to join Newcastle Intermediaries

John Truswell has joined Newcastle Building Society as its head of intermediary mortgages. Truswell (pictured)...

New finance director for Hope Capital

Hope Capital has appointed Kate Cowan as its new finance director. Cowan (pictured) has worked...

Mortgage Brain appoints sales and marketing director

Mortgage Brain has appointed Neil Wyatt as its new sales and marketing director. Wyatt has over...

Paragon reveals John Heron’s successor

Paragon Banking Group will be appointing Richard Rowntree as its new managing director of...

Andrew Ferguson to head up BTL for West One Loans

Andrew Ferguson has been appointed as managing director of West One Loans' buy-to-let.  Ferguson joined...

Aldermore makes specialist finance hires for North of England

Aldermore has made two new appointments to its specialist finance team in support of...

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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