Appointments

Key Retirement recruits advice delivery director

Key Retirement has added to its senior team with the appointment of Ian English...

The Coventry appoints NED

The Coventry Building Society has announced that Iraj Amiri, currently a member of the...

Legal & General Home Finance appoints head of mortgage broker sales

Legal & General Home Finance has announced the appointment of Marie Catch as head...

Octopus Property appoints head of structuring

Octopus Property, part of the Octopus Group, has announced the appointment of Matthew Pritchard...

The Stafford Railway BS makes board appointment

The Stafford Railway Building Society has appointed Steven Jones as its new deputy chief...

Bibby Financial Services appoints head of trade services

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Aman Gill as its head of trade services. The...

TMA appoints key account manager

TMA Mortgage Club has announced the appointment of John Wilson as a field based key...

New presidents for ARLA Propertymark and NAEA Propertymark

ARLA Propertymark and NAEA Propertymark have welcomed their new presidential teams for the year...

Landbay makes northern appointment

Landbay has appointed Ian Hall as regional account manager for the North. Hall (pictured) joins...

Complete FS bolsters residential and buy-to-let teams

Specialist packager Complete FS has appointed new staff members to its residential and buy-to-let...

Octane Capital appoints BDM for the South West

Octane Capital has announced the appointment of Dominic Sheahan as senior business development manager. Sheahan...

New BDM at Signature Private Finance

Signature Private Finance has appointed Jason Fantini as business development manager (BDM) with primary responsibility for...

Shawbrook hires two commercial lending managers

Shawbrook Bank has appointed a further two lending managers, Nicole Edwards and Joanna Vudali,...

Vida recruits trio of key account managers

Vida Homeloans has expanded its sales team with three new key account managers. Sarah Hartwell joins...

COMMENT

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

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Energy-efficient homes ‘may carry higher climate risks’

Some of the UK’s more energy-efficient homes could face greater long-term exposure to flooding...

New towns plan may help supply but risks falling short, says former RICS chair

The government’s announcement of seven proposed new towns has been broadly welcomed as a...

Buy-to-let mortgage rates rise as landlords face fresh cost pressures

Buy-to-let mortgage rates have risen sharply this month, while landlords are also facing further...

Virgin Money to take mortgage application systems offline for five days

Virgin money has announced that its Virgin Money and Clydesdale online application platforms will...

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