Appointments

Three senior appointments for L&G retail retirement division

Legal & General has announced the appointment of Jon Scannell, Meg Dickens and Sara...

Kent Reliance appoints trio

Kent Reliance has announced the appointment of two regional sales managers and a senior...

JLM Mortgage Services appoints COO

Network JLM Mortgage Services has announced the appointment of Daniel Leach as its new...

Together appoints new BDM for London

Together has hired a new business development manager (BDM) for London. Sophie Guest (pictured) has...

Recruitment drive at Vida Homeloans

Vida Homeloans is recruiting three new roles and promoting three senior sales people.  Sally Wright,...

Metro Bank appoints commercial banking director

Metro Bank has announced the appointment of Jamie Sim as a commercial banking director...

Skipton appoints trainee IRM

The Skipton Building Society has appointed Serena Smith to its team of intermediary regional managers...

Pure Retirement hires business development manager

Hattie Tales has become Pure Retirement's new business development manager for the south of...

Savills’ chief executive to retire at end of year

Jeremy Helsby is to retire as group chief executive at the end of 2018. He...

Adam Tyler appointed FIBA chairman

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) has appointed Adam Tyler to lead the new...

Cirencester Friendly hires new key account manager

Cirencester Friendly has appointed Paul Shepherd to the newly created role of key account...

Black Book Finance expands commercial finance team

Black Book Finance has appointed Darren Peiris to the position of commercial finance executive.  Peiris...

Purplebricks UK appoints CEO

Lee Wainwright has been appointed CEO of the Purplebricks' UK operations with immediate effect. He...

Jeremy Duncombe to join Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has announced the appointment of Jeremy Duncombe as its director of intermediary...

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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