Appointments

The Dudley appoints head of commercial

The Dudley Building Society (DBS) has appointed Samantha Ward as its head of commercial. The...

Twenty7Tec adds to intermediary team

Twenty7Tec has made a number of new hires in its intermediary support and account...

Internal promotions at OneSavings Bank

OneSavings Bank has announced the internal promotions of key personnel at Kent Reliance and...

Oblix Capital hires new director of development

Oblix Capital has appointed Richard Payne joining as its new director of development. With over...

The Mortgage Lender expands onsite underwriting team

The Mortgage Lender has expanded its onsite underwriting team with the appointment of Diane...

Pepper Money makes sales hire covering the North East

Pepper Money has appointed a new regional development manager for the North East of...

Boardroom changes at Mortgage Advice Bureau

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has announced the retirement of David Preece as an executive director...

The Nottingham appoints executive director

The Nottingham Building Society's chief risk officer, Charles Roe, has been appointed as an...

Trio join Gatehouse Bank’s home finance team

Gatehouse Bank has appointed Sonam Pathak and Neha Nadhvana as mortgage underwriters in its...

Shawbrook appoints regional development manager for London & South East

Daniel Standing has joined the Shawbrook Bank commercial mortgages sales team as regional development...

Mortgage Brain appoints national account manager quartet

Mortgage Brain has finalised the appointment of four new national account managers. Matt Surridge, a former...

Reward Finance Group appoints managing director for Manchester office

Nick Smith, group sales and marketing director of Reward Finance Group, has been appointed...

IGF expands ABL sales team

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has made two appointments to its asset based lending sales...

John Eastgate to leave OSB for Shawbrook in the summer

Shawbrook Bank has announced the appointment of John Eastgate as managing director, commercial mortgages...

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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