Appointments

Metro Bank creates 120 new roles

Metro Bank is opening a new 24/7 contact centre in central Ilford, creating 120...

Hope Capital expands to drive growth plans

Hope Capital has appointed a new member of staff and a consultant to help...

Keystone hires business managers for the North

Keystone Property Finance has appointed Sara Finlay-Hudson and Gary Dean to its business development...

InterBay Commercial revamps sales structure

InterBay Commercial has created a new sales structure, designed to better support its broker...

New trustees at Leeds Building Society Foundation

Two new trustees have joined the Leeds Building Society Foundation. The appointment of David Marsh...

New BDM at Octane Capital

Octane Capital has recruited Josh Knight as a business development manager (BDM). Knight (pictured) joins from...

Jeremy Cook joins Metro Bank

Metro Bank has appointed Jeremy Cook as head of corporate relationships within its mortgage...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network grows development team

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has announced the appointment of Simon Thomas as...

Together makes senior management appointments

Together has announced that John Lowe will be joining its senior management team and...

TML hires key account manager for Scotland

Hanif Hussain has been appointed by The Mortgage Lender (TML) as key account manager...

Butterfield Mortgages hires relationship manager

Butterfield Mortgages Ltd (BML) has appointed Radhika Madar has joined BML as relationship manager. She...

L&G appoints mortgage club director

Legal & General has appointed Kevin Roberts as director of the Legal & General...

Key Partnerships hires BDM for Midlands

Gillian Roberts has been appointed as a business development manager (BDM) in the Midlands...

Aldermore hires head of business development

Aldermore has expanded its asset finance lending team with the appointment of Nick Dudley...

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

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...

Parental support for adult children is reshaping retirement plans

Three in five parents with children aged over 18 are providing financial support, with...

LISA payouts near £140m as industry warns against disrupting first-time buyer support

The Lifetime ISA delivered almost £140m in government bonuses last year, as industry figures...

Mortgage borrowing rises as approvals edge higher in February

Mortgage borrowing and approvals both increased in February, although activity remains close to recent...

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