Appointments

Paula Purdy leaves Shawbrook

Paula Purdy, head of sales at Shawbrook Bank, is to leave the lender after...

Masthaven makes a number of senior appointments

Masthaven Bank has announced the appointment of three new staff members across its mortgage...

Kuflink Bridging appoints head of sales

Kuflink Bridging has announce Jeff Bungar’s promotion to the position of head of sales....

Gatehouse Bank hires head of home finance operations

Gatehouse Bank has appointed Karen Faulkner to the position of head of home finance...

360 Dot Net appoints strategy and proposition director

360 Dot Net has announced the appointment of Brod Whiting as strategy and proposition...

Hampshire Trust Bank appoints new NED

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announces the appointment of Astrid Grey as an independent non-executive director (NED). Grey (pictured)...

United Trust Bank grows development finance team

United Trust Bank (UTB) has announced the appointment of two new property development managers...

Magellan Homeloans hires regional sales manager for North West

Magellan Homeloans has announced the appointment of a new regional sales manager, Dean Linklater,...

PRA’s Martin Stewart to join Coventry BS board

The Coventry Building Society has announced that Martin Stewart – director, banks, building societies...

SME lender appoints senior underwriter

Spotcap UK, lender to small and medium sized businesses, has appointed Andrew Caulfield as...

New NED for Stonebridge Group’s Revolution board

Stonebridge Group is adding a new non-executive director (NED) to the board of Revolution,...

Tuscan Capital appoints national sales manager

Tuscan Capital has announced the appointment of a national sales manager. Chris Parr is tasked...

Foundation Home Loans appoints regional account managers

Foundation Home Loans has expanded its sales team with the appointment of Victoria Pearce...

Spicerhaart Corporate Sales appoints first in-house mortgage broker

Just Mortgages broker Lauren Cunningham has been appointed as Spicerhaart Corporate Sales first in-house...

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

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...

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...

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