Appointments

OneFamily appoints BDM for the North West

OneFamily has appointed Donna Johnson as a business development manager (BDM) in its adviser...

Apex Bridging appoints marketing chief

Apex Bridging has appointed Andy Bayes as its head of marketing. He joins the Midlands-based...

Newcastle Intermediaries hires new BDM for the North West

Newcastle Intermediaries has recruited Stephen Breen as a business development manager (BDM) to cover...

Royal London appoints new chief executive

The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited has announced that Barry O'Dwyer has been...

The Hanley Economic expands intermediary support

The Hanley Economic Building Society has appointed Kate McKeon as an intermediary sales assistant...

OneFamily expands lifetime mortgage support teams

OneFamily has added two new underwriters and three mortgage processors to its lifetime mortgage...

Gatehouse Bank hires direct adviser

Gatehouse Bank has appointed Robert Siddall to the position of direct adviser. Siddall (pictured) will...

Axis Bank UK expands key account team

Axis Bank UK has appointed Dean Linklater as key account manager for the north. The...

Glenhawk appoints NED

Glenhawk has appointed Caroline Ong as non-executive director. Ong has over 20 years of commercial...

Smart Money appoints national account manager

Specialist finance master broker Smart Money has announced the appointment of Gary Lomax as its...

Trio joins Catalyst Property Finance

Catalyst Property Finance has announced three new appointments within its head office team. There is...

IGF appoints non-executive chairman

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has announced the appointment of John Allbrook as non-executive chairman. He...

New BDM for Leek United

Leek United has appointed Deb Bree as business development manager (BDM). Bree (pictured) previously spent five...

Spencer Gale joins Axis Bank

Axis Bank UK has announced the appointment of Spencer Gale as key account manager. Gale...

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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