Appointments

Equifinance appoints regional sales manager

Equifinance has appointed Richard Croll as regional sales manager.  The second charge lender says Croll...

Foundation Home Loans hires regional account manager for West & South Wales

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Sarah Hopkins as regional account manager for the West...

Source Insurance makes senior appointment

Source Insurance has appointed Steve Jenkins to the role of head of commercial partnerships. After...

Paul Kelly joins Uinsure from Paymentshield

Uinsure has announced the appointment of Paul Kelly to the new role of director...

Oblix Capital hires pair of BDMs

Oblix Capital has announced two BDM appointments to cover London and the South.   Both...

More 2 Life appoints director of funding and product development

Equity release lender More 2 Life has appointed Roland Steere as director of funding and...

Together hires new lending director

Robert Goodall is joining Together as its new lending director will be based at...

The Coventry confirms appointment of new chair

The Coventry Building Society has confirmed the appointment of Gary Hoffman as non-executive director...

Mark Jones joins L&G as new product director

Legal & General has announced the appointment of Mark Jones as product director, UK...

KR Group appoints PR & public affairs director

Key Retirement Group has appointed Lee Blackwell as director of public relations and public...

The Leeds expands intermediary team

The Leeds Building Society has appointed a new business development manager in the North East. Helen...

Record month for Just Mortgages’ self-employed division

Just Mortgages' self-employed division has now hit 100 brokers, an increase of 23% since...

Octane Capital recruits internal business development manager

Adam Ware has joined Octane Capital as internal business development manager.  Ware (pictured) joins from Commercial...

Shawbrook Commercial hires lending manager

Shawbrook Bank has revealed that Stewart Paine has joined the commercial property team as...

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

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...

Impaired credit mortgage sales rise to highest level since 2008

Mortgage lending to borrowers with impaired credit histories has climbed to levels not seen...

Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...

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