Appointments

Emma Hall leaves Gordon’s Property Lawyers for MovinLegal

Emma Hall has quit Gordon’s Property Lawyers and joined Newcastle-based MovinLegal. MovinLegal launched in October...

Office move for VIBE Finance following new appointments

VIBE Finance has moved to new office premises after taking on two case managers. The...

Newcastle Intermediaries appoints BDM for London

Newcastle Intermediaries has hired Rebecca Roberts as a business development manager (BDM) for London...

Protection provider appoints interim CEO

Guardian has announced changes to its leadership team. Simon Davis is currently taking an extended...

Wesleyan appoints new group chief executive

Wesleyan has announced the appointment of Mario Mazzocchi as its new group chief executive...

Leek United appoints intermediary mortgages team manager

Leek United has appointed Laura Allcock as intermediary mortgages team manager. Allcock (pictured) has worked for...

Glenhawk appoints chief operating officer

Glenhawk has announced that former Morgan Stanley head of residential mortgage trading, Steven Khan,...

Aldermore appoints interim business finance managing director

Aldermore has appointed Tim Boag as interim business finance managing director with overall responsibility...

Leek United appoints HR director

The Leek United Building Society has appointed Tracey Johnson as its new human resources...

Royal London recruits corporate development director

Royal London has announced the appointment of Steve Murray into the newly created role...

Steve Griffiths to join The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has appointed Steve Griffiths as its sales director. Griffiths (pictured) will...

HL Partnership ramps up later life lending focus

Mortgage & protection network HLPartnership (HLP) has appointed Sue Read as its later life lending...

New chairs for FCA Practitioner Panels

The Financial Conduct Authority chair, Charles Randell, has announced the appointments of new chairs...

Together hires London corporate relationship director

Andrew Fouli has joined Together as its corporate relationship director for London. Fouli (pictured) will be...

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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