Appointments

Bibby Financial Services hires BDM for South West England

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Sue Pengelly as business development manager (BDM) for...

Yellow Stone Finance appoints senior client relationship manager

Mike Lawton is joining Yellow Stone Finance as senior client relationship manager. Lawton (pictured) has...

Complete FS hire to head up seconds business

Becky Danson has been appointed by packager and distributor Complete FS to head up its growing...

Adams and Jarvis begin new roles at Pepper Money

Paul Adams has started as sales director at Pepper Money, while Clare Jarvis has...

Steve Sandiford joins Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Steve Sandiford as its residential mortgages director. Sandiford (pictured) has...

Openwork makes senior appointment

Openwork has appointed Claire Limon as head of recruitment and development. Limon (pictured) moves to...

BML hires new business development director

Butterfield Mortgages Limited (BML) has appointed David Gwyther as its new business development director. Gwyther...

New BDM in Shawbrook’s residential mortgages team

Fran Green is joining Shawbrook’s Residential Mortgages' sales team as a business development manager...

Kuflink Bridging hires new underwriter

Kuflink Bridging has announced an appointment in its lending team with the addition of...

Mint Bridging appoints head of legal

Mint Bridging has created the role of head of legal for Andrea Naylor. Naylor was...

Assetz Capital boosts Yorkshire and Humber presence

Peer-to-peer lender Assetz Capital has appointed David Reed to the position of regional relationship...

John Griffith-Jones to chair StepChange Debt Charity

StepChange Debt Charity has announced that John Griffith-Jones is now chairing the charity, following...

The Newcastle BS welcomes new CFO

The Newcastle Building Society has appointed David Samper as its new chief financial officer. With...

Shawbrook appoints Daryl Norkett as head of products & markets

Shawbrook Commercial Mortgages has promoted Daryl Norkett to the position of head of products...

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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