Appointments

Clever Lending duo take charge of growth plans

Clever Lending has appointed two new directors to lead the specialist distributor’s ambitious plans...

New director appointment at Together

Specialist lender Together has appointed Liz Blythe as a non-executive director for the group’s...

Usay Compare appoints managing director

Usay Compare has announced the appointment of Mark Noble as its new managing director. Noble...

Maria Harris to join Twenty7Tec from Atom bank

Twenty7Tec has revealed that Maria Harris will join the company on 1 October as...

FCA appoints new chief economist

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Kate Collyer as its chief economist. She is...

New BDM for ESBS

Earl Shilton Building Society (ESBS) has appointed a business development manager (BDM). Debbie Holmes joins...

Target Group hires business development director

Target Group has announced the appointment of Mark Gilliver as its new business development...

The Vernon appoints new BDM

The Vernon Building Society has appointed Caroline Shard as a business development manager in...

New sales director for Brilliant Solutions

Specialist mortgage club and packager, Brilliant Solutions, has appointed Michael Craig to the position...

Laura Sneddon joins Masthaven

Laura Sneddon has been appointed as national account manager for Masthaven Bank's mortgage division. She...

Just Mortgages appoints trio of sales directors

Just Mortgages has appointed three new divisional sales directors. Peter Kendall, Mike Peet and Tony...

MFS hires new BDM

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has appointed Ewan Duncan as its new business development manager...

Steve Seal becomes Bluestone MD

Bluestone Mortgages has promoted Steve Seal to the role of managing director. Seal (pictured) joined...

MAB appoints new build BDM

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) New Homes has appointed Stan Collins as business development manager...

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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