Appointments

Bankhall and PMS appoint advisory relationships director

Bankhall and PMS Mortgage Club, part of Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG), have appointed Campbell...

Sirius Property Finance appoints head of partnerships

Sirius Property Finance has hired Kimberley Gates as its head of partnerships. Gates will work...

Clever Lending boosts field-based team

Clever Lending has appointed two additional field-based sales managers. Stacey Woods and Tanya Legge have...

SimplyBiz Group appoints managing director for professional connections arm

The SimplyBiz Group has announced the appointment of Dave Seager to the newly created...

Internal promotion at Octane Capital

Octane Capital has promoted Oli Greenspan from his position of head of internal sales to head...

Rob Clifford to become Stonebridge Group chief executive

Stonebridge Group's managing director, Richard Adams, is to step back from his executive role...

Hope Capital hires five new faces

Hope Capital has tripled the size of its business development team following new appointments. The...

M&S Bank appoints CEO

M&S Bank has appointed Paul Spencer as its CEO. This follows his appointment as interim CEO...

Chris Parr to run new Manchester office for Fiduciam

Fiduciam is aiming to expand its lending activities in the north of England and...

Ryan Brailsford promoted to head of sales at Pepper Money

Pepper Money has appointed Ryan Brailsford as head of sales. Last month, Pepper Money introduced...

iPipeline grows distribution team

iPipeline is expanding its distribution team to support growth within the protection market. Andy Milburn...

New BDM at More 2 Life

Equity release lender More 2 Life has appointed Sanjay Gadhia as a business development manager (BDM)...

United Trust Bank appoints new BDM

United Trust Bank has appointed Owen Bentley as business development manager in its mortgages...

Openwork boss appointed to PIMFA board

Mark Duckworth, chief executive of Openwork, has been appointed to the board of The Personal...

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

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...

New-build homes account for 8% of properties on the market

New-build homes make up just 8.1% of properties currently listed for sale across Great...

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