Appointments

New FD for the Hanley Economic

The Hanley Economic Building Society has appointed Larne Payne as its new financial director. Payne (pictured)...

KR Group hires group data and business intelligence director

KR Group has appointed Charlie Moran as group data and business intelligence director. Moran's most recent...

Mortgage Brain appoints CTO

Mortgage Brain has appointed Ken Deegan as its chief technical officer (CTO). Deegan (pictured) has...

One Stop Business Finance appoints operations and risk director

Yorkshire-based SME alternative funding specialist, One Stop Business Finance, has appointed John Brown as...

The Mortgage Lender puts onsite underwriter in Complete FS office

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has once again expanded its team of onsite underwriters with...

Newcastle Intermediaries appoints new national account manager

Newcastle Intermediaries has appointed a new national account manager and expanded its business development team...

LendInvest makes business development hires

LendInvest has made a number of field based and internal hires to its business development team. Nigel...

New specialist finance hires at White Oak UK

White Oak UK has announced a number of new hires to its specialist finance...

OneFamily appoints distribution director

OneFamily has appointed Miles Bingham as its new distribution director. Bingham (pictured) has 30 years of...

TML appoints regional underwriter

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has appointed Katie Haley as a regional underwriter based at...

Vida Homeloans appoints sales manager for north of England

Claire Ashkam has been appointed as Vida Homeloans' new sales manager - north, to...

Kensington appointments support growth plans

Kensington Mortgages has announced new members to its national account team, field sales team...

Financial software firm makes senior business development hire

Paylink Solutions has appointed Paul Nicholson as senior solutions consultant. He joins the Midlands-based technology...

Together expands London and the South teams

Together has widened its distribution network with two new hires. Marylen Edwards is its new...

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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