Appointments

Leek United appoints finance director

Leek United Building Society has appointed Rob Broadbent as its new finance director. Broadbent has...

ALEP makes executive committee appointment

The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has appointed John Midgley as a new member...

Catalyst Property Finance appoints head of real estate

Catalyst Property Finance has appointed Kevin Stephenson as its head of real estate within...

New BDM team at Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has created a new business development team for the South West &...

InterBay Commercial appoints new senior London BDM

InterBay Commercial has appointed Davey Gurm as a senior business development manager (BDM) to...

Oblix Capital appoints finance director

Steve Rogers has joined bridging and development lender Oblix Capital as its finance director.  Rogers (pictured) is...

Kensington appoints three new ADMs

Kensington Mortgages has announced the appointment of three new account development managers (ADMs). Working for...

CLS Money appoints sales manager

CLS Money has made a new appointment to oversee its expanding advice team. Alec McCubbing...

Precise Mortgages appoints pair of BDMs

Precise Mortgages has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs) to support brokers in...

Landbay adds to regional sales team

Landbay has appointed Helen McKinney joins as head of sales for the South region. In...

New BDMs at BM Solutions

BM Solutions has made new business development manager (BDM) appointments. Gareth Stockton has more than...

The Skipton appoints head of mortgage products

The Skipton Building Society has announced the appointment of a new head of mortgage products. Alex...

Auxilium Partnership hires head of proposition

Auxilium Partnership has appointed Sarah Moore as its new head of proposition. Moore (pictured) will...

Leek United appoints business development manager

Leek United has appointed Dan Berrisford as business development manager. Berrisford (pictured) has over 12 years’...

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

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...

Redwood holds buy-to-let rates despite higher wholesale funding costs

Redwood Bank has kept its buy-to-let mortgage rates unchanged despite rising swap costs prompting...

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