Appointments

Openwork appoints chief people officer

Openwork has added to its executive team with the appointment of Carrie Morris as...

New BDM for bridging lender

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has hired a new business development manager (BSM). The appointment of...

Two new area directors for Just Mortgages’ self-employed division

A pair of new area directors have joined Just Mortgages’ self-employed division. Jon Taylor joined...

BEP Systems hires new ops director

BEP Systems has announced the appointment of Sandeep Challa to the role of operations...

New regional account manager for Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Julie Bourne to the position of regional account manager for...

Sesame makes business development director appointment

Sesame Network has appointed David Jennings to the newly created role of business development...

Kensington Mortgages appoints head of national accounts

Kensington Mortgages has announced the appointment of Frances Hayter as head of national accounts. Hayter...

Smartr365 appoints commercial director

Fintech mortgage platform Smartr365 has appointed Mark McKenna to the position of commercial director....

CODE Investing makes board appointments

SME debt finance platform, CODE Investing, has appointed Borro chairman, John Allbrook, as a...

The Ipswich appoints new mortgage sales manager

The Ipswich Building Society has promoted Kevin Davis from senior mortgage underwriter to mortgage...

Fluent Money Group appoints head of compliance

Fluent Money Group has appointed John Lewis to take on the newly created role...

The Leeds’ deputy CEO joins Business in the Community advisory board

Richard Fearon, the Leeds Building Society’s deputy chief executive, has been appointed to Business...

Glenhawk makes underwriting appointment

Glenhawk has appointed Amy Wareham as a junior underwriter. Wareham (pictured) joins the specialist property lender's 20-strong team...

West One Loans makes range of sales hires

West One Loans has made a number of strategic appointments to its sales team. Kevin...

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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