Appointments

LendInvest bolsters buy-to-let team

LendInvest has grown its buy-to-let team with a number of in-house and field based hires. The...

TML apprentice graduates to BDM

Former apprentice Charlie Stack has been appointed as business development manager (BDM) at The...

Fleet recruits North East BDM

Fleet Mortgages has appointed a new business development manager (BDM) covering the North East. ...

Spicerhaart Part Exchange doubles staff numbers

Spicerhaart Part Exchange and Assisted Move (P/X&AM) has reported its most successful quarter to...

Paymentshield hires proposition director

Paymentshield has appointed James Loder as proposition director. Loder (pictured) will oversee the development of...

Roma Finance appoints head of sales

Bridging and development lender Roma Finance has appointed Tracey Martin as its head of sales. Martin...

Reward Finance makes key Leeds office appointment

Noel Haverly has joined the Leeds office of Reward Finance as business development director. He...

Pair of new BDMs for Oblix Capital

Oblix Capital has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs) to improve its presence across...

Only man on shortlist gets MPC role

The Treasury has announced the appointment of Professor Jonathan Haskel as an external member...

SortRefer finalises sales team personnel

SortRefer has appointed Jo Prendergast as regional account manager for the south west. She joins...

Thomson departs as TML expands sales team

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has appointed three more business development managers (BDMs) and created...

Robert Sterling Surveyors appoints new senior surveyor

Robert Sterling Surveyors has appointed Stephen Lowe to the new position of senior surveyor. ...

Cammy Amaira joins the Tipton & Cosley

The Tipton and Coseley Building Society has appointed Cammy Amaira as its new director...

Just Mortgages creates new operations manager position

Just Mortgages is expanding its senior management team with the appointment of an operation...

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...

Latest news

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...

PROFILES