Appointments

Mark Graves joins HL Partnership and Mortgage Support Network

Mark Graves has been appointed as chief operating officer (COO) of mortgage and protection...

New chief executive at the Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has welcomed its new chief executive, Colin Fyfe,...

InterBay Commercial hires senior BDM for the Midlands

InterBay Commercial has appointed Matthew Taylor as a senior business development manager to cover...

Pepper Money hires new national account manager

Pepper Money has recruited Phil Quinn to the new position of national account manager. Quinn...

Steve Cox joins Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has appointed Steve Cox as its new distribution director. Cox will be working...

UTB expands its mortgages & bridging team

United Trust Bank has promoted Mike Walters to the position of head of sales for...

New BDMs at NatWest Intermediary Solutions

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs). Rhys Powell joins as...

New chair for Kensington Mortgages

Jayne Almond is to succeed Tim Breedon as chair of Kensington Mortgages. In additional, she will...

Legal & General Mortgage Club appoints key relationship manager

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced that Clare Beardmore is joining from the...

Precise Mortgages appoints new BDM for Scotland

Precise Mortgages has appointed a new dedicated business development manager (BDM) for Scotland. The specialist...

The Saffron appoints relationship manager

Solo Baleisolomone, a qualified Quantity Surveyor; former housing development site manager and decorated military...

BFS director appointed to Institute of Export and International Trade board

Kash Ahmad, Bibby Financial Services' (BFS) specialist director, has been appointed to the board...

The Mansfield Building Society appoints national development manager

The Mansfield Building Society has recruited Paul Lewis to the role of national development...

Octane Capital appoints internal business development associate

Octane Capital has recruited George Lyall as internal business development associate. He will report...

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

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...

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...

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