Appointments

Keith Street joins The Mortgage Lender

Keith Street has joined The Mortgage Lender as its chief commercial officer (CCO). Street...

Two major hires for TDS

Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) has appointed two key senior figures. François Josserand takes on...

OneFamily makes two hires for intermediary sales team

OneFamily has appointed Chris Brown as a strategic account manager and Laurie Diiorio as...

IGF appoints asset based lending director

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has announced the appointment of Neil Kindness as asset based...

Naismiths takes on four surveyors for the North

The national property consultancy Naismiths has recruited four experienced surveyors to its surveying practice across...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network expands compliance team

The Right Mortgage and Protection Network has added two new members to its compliance...

More 2 Life appoints product manager

More 2 Life has appointed Jac Jones to the newly created role of product manager. Jones...

Investec Asset Finance makes sales appointment

Investec Asset Finance (IAF) has appointed David Lavin to its broker introduced sales team. The...

The Mortgage Lender appoints BDM

Louise Apollonio has joined The Mortgage Lender as business development manager for the North...

Castle Trust appoints new telephone BDM

Castle Trust has appointed Steve Gregory as its new telephone business development manager (BDM)for...

David Robinson joins Shawbrook

David Robinson is to join Shawbrook Bank as its sales and distribution director for residential...

L&G promotes Simon Hird

Legal & General has made a number of senior promotions within its general insurance...

New BDM for Home Counties and the South for Secure Trust Bank

Secure Trust Bank Mortgages has hired Bradley Street as its new business development manager...

The Teachers BS appoints BDM for London & the South East

The Teachers Building Society has appointed Ralph Punter to a newly created role of...

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

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...

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

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