Appointments

Paymentshield boosts regional sales team

Paymentshield has expanded its sales team with the recruitment of two new regional sales...

Leek United expands intermediary team

Leek United has made a series of appointments to its intermediary mortgage team. George Simpson...

Signature appoints relationship manager for London and the South

Signature Private Finance has announced the appointment of relationship manager, Andy Neocleous. Neocleous (pictured) will...

Sonia Shortland becomes Apex Bridging MD

Sonia Shortland has been promoted to the position of managing director of midlands based...

Vida Homeloans appoints Midlands key account manager

Vida Homeloans has recruited Mil Consiglio as its new key account manager for the...

New roaming onsite underwriter at Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has appointed a new onsite underwriter who will work across a range...

Phoebus Software hires head of sales and account management

Adam Oldfield has joined Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) as head of sales and account...

Jim Nash joins Tuscan Capital

Tuscan Capital has appointed Jim Nash as its new national sales manager. Nash (pictured) joins...

Three new BDMs at The Moving Hub

Conveyancing platform and case management provider The Moving Hub, a leading system has...

Four new staff at BEP Systems

Mortgage and savings origination software house BEP Systems has appointed four new staff members as...

Axis Bank UK appoints buy-to-let manager

Axis Bank UK has appointed Zenzi Tinkorang as buy-to-let manager in its intermediary team. She...

Belmont Green hires chief risk officer

Belmont Green Finance, the business behind lender Vida Homeloans, has recruited Stephen Roughton-Smith to...

Glenhawk appoints BDM for London and South East

Glenhawk has appointed Peter Turner as a business development manager, who joins from Shawbrook Bank. He...

The Leek United appoints new branch manager

Leek United has appointed Daniel Nutt as the new branch manager for its Market...

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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