Appointments

Broker Conveyancing appoints Midlands area director

Broker Conveyancing has announced several new hires, promotions and an ongoing recruitment drive. Following a...

Former Pepper MD to advise bridging lender

Roma Finance has appointed Colin Snowdon as board adviser. Snowdon (pictured) was previously managing director...

VAS group hires group operations leader

VAS Group has appointed Lisa Southall as its first group operations leader. Southall (pictured) is...

Kuflink appoints CFO

Kuflink Group plc has hired former Barclaycard financial director, Tim Spurr, as chief financial...

New FOS chair revealed

Baroness Zahida Manzoor CBE has been appointed as the new chair of the Financial Ombudsman...

Jason Neale to head up Axis Bank’s buy-to-let business

Axis Bank UK has appointed Jason Neale to take over its buy-to-let lending operation. He...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries appoints senior BDM for East Midlands

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries (KRFI), part of specialist lending and retail savings group OneSavings...

Shawbrook adds to residential mortgages team

Shawbrook’s residential mortgages team has announced the appointment of Julia Dobell as business development...

Smartr365 appoints head of network and club relationships

Smartr365 has announced the appointment of Stephen Nobes as head of network and club relationships. Nobes...

Enra Group makes senior appointments

West One Loans and its parent, Enra Group, have made a number of strategic...

Key grows corporate business development team

Equity release adviser Key is expanding its corporate business development team. Key’s corporate team is actively...

Four new additions to Together’s corporate relationships team

Together has expanded its corporate relationships team with a series of senior appointments. It has...

HLPartnership makes recruitment team appointment

Mortgage and protection network HL Partnership has appointed Tom Barnett to the recruitment manager...

Spicerhaart Part Exchange and Assisted Move hires Kent BDM

Spicerhaart Part Exchange and Assisted Move has appointed Tracey Gee as its new business...

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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