Appointments

Spicerhaart Part Exchange and Assisted Move appoints duo

Spicerhaart Part Exchange and Assisted Move has made two new appointments, including a new...

The Vernon hires North West BDM

The Vernon Building Society has appointed Kevin Baggs as mortgage business development manager (BDM). Baggs...

Skipton International appoints business development manager

Skipton International has appointed Roger Hughes as business development manager (BDM). This new role was...

Key expands estate planning team

Equity release broker Key has created three new senior roles within its estate planning department. The team...

Fluent for Advisers expands development teams

Fluent for Advisers has appointed two new business development officers (BDOs) to its internal...

MT Finance recruits new BDM

MT Finance has appointed Jamie Gillespie as business development manager (BDM) for the Midlands...

Richard Howells appointed Sesame managing director

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced the appointment of Richard Howells as managing director...

Dudley BS makes commercial appointment

The Dudley Building Society (DBS) has announced the appointment of Jenny Coffey as market...

Paula Purdy joins Together

Paula Purdy has taken up her new position of key accounts manager at specialist...

New chairman for asset finance provider

Arkle Finance has appointed Paul Bartley, the co-founder of Close Leasing, as its new...

Two new NEDs for the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has appointed Iain Cornish and Annette Barnes as non-executive directors. Both...

Keystone appoints BDM for the Midlands

Keystone Property Finance has appointed Louise Roderick-Smith as a business development manager (BDM) covering...

Mortgage technology firm appoints sales director

Eligible, a technology firm automating customer retention for the mortgage industry, has appointed ex-partner...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints senior business development manager

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Chris Lamming as senior business development manager...

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

Eleos launches income protection with redundancy cover

Eleos Life has launched an income protection policy covering redundancy alongside illness and injury...

Trade bodies welcome first-time buyer scheme but call for careful design

Mortgage trade bodies have welcomed the government's proposed Your First Home scheme, while warning...

Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...

Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...

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