Appointments

Ed Parsons joins Tuscan Capital as CFO

Tuscan Capital has announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO). Ed Parsons...

Pepper Money appoints regional development manager

Pepper Money has appointed Steve Mannakee as regional development manager for East London and...

MTF appoints Gareth Lewis

Gareth Lewis, previously director of bridging at Precise Mortgages has joined short-term finance lender,...

Gordon Rae joins The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender has announced that Gordon Rae has joined it as business development manager...

The Northview Group appoints head of marketing

The Northview Group has announced the appointment of Alastair Faux to the position of...

Sirius Property Finance to grow business in in north west

Adele Turton has joined Sirius Property Finance to run the lender's new Manchester office. Turton...

Sesame Bankhall Group appoints COO

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Martin Schultheiss to the newly created role of...

Castle Trust appoints managing director for mortgages

Barry Searle, Castle Trust’s chief operating officer (COO), is to become its new managing director...

Dick Jenkins joins the Bucks BS

Dick Jenkins has become a non-executive director (NED) at the Buckinghamshire Building Society. Jenkins (pictured) retired...

Gatehouse Bank grows direct finance team

Gatehouse Bank has added two new senior hires to its direct finance team following...

Octane Capital’s sales director leaves the business

Octane Capital has confirmed the departure of Tom Clark, its sales director, who was part...

Scottish Widows hires protection director

Scottish Widows has appointed Gary Burchett to the role of protection director. He will have...

Equifinance appoints regional sales manager

Equifinance has appointed Richard Croll as regional sales manager.  The second charge lender says Croll...

Foundation Home Loans hires regional account manager for West & South Wales

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Sarah Hopkins as regional account manager for the West...

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