Appointments

Cammy Amaira joins the Tipton & Cosley

The Tipton and Coseley Building Society has appointed Cammy Amaira as its new director...

Just Mortgages creates new operations manager position

Just Mortgages is expanding its senior management team with the appointment of an operation...

Ed Parsons joins Tuscan Capital as CFO

Tuscan Capital has announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO). Ed Parsons...

Pepper Money appoints regional development manager

Pepper Money has appointed Steve Mannakee as regional development manager for East London and...

MTF appoints Gareth Lewis

Gareth Lewis, previously director of bridging at Precise Mortgages has joined short-term finance lender,...

Gordon Rae joins The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender has announced that Gordon Rae has joined it as business development manager...

The Northview Group appoints head of marketing

The Northview Group has announced the appointment of Alastair Faux to the position of...

Sirius Property Finance to grow business in in north west

Adele Turton has joined Sirius Property Finance to run the lender's new Manchester office. Turton...

Sesame Bankhall Group appoints COO

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Martin Schultheiss to the newly created role of...

Castle Trust appoints managing director for mortgages

Barry Searle, Castle Trust’s chief operating officer (COO), is to become its new managing director...

Dick Jenkins joins the Bucks BS

Dick Jenkins has become a non-executive director (NED) at the Buckinghamshire Building Society. Jenkins (pictured) retired...

Gatehouse Bank grows direct finance team

Gatehouse Bank has added two new senior hires to its direct finance team following...

Octane Capital’s sales director leaves the business

Octane Capital has confirmed the departure of Tom Clark, its sales director, who was part...

Scottish Widows hires protection director

Scottish Widows has appointed Gary Burchett to the role of protection director. He will have...

COMMENT

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...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

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...

Precise cuts residential mortgage offer times with new platform

Precise has launched a residential mortgage platform after a pilot reduced average application-to-offer times...

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