Appointments

Openwork appoints two non-executive directors

    Openwork has appointed Ian Buchanan and Andy Smart as non-executive board directors. Ian Buchanan is...

Black Book Finance expands BDM team

Andy Morgan has joined Black Book finance as its business development manager  for the...

Paul Nye to retire from 
Stonebridge Group

Stonebridge Group has announced that Paul Nye, its director of business partnerships, will retire...

Naismiths builds surveying team

National property consultancy and surveyors Naismiths has recruited a pair of surveyors to grow its surveying...

Mortgage Brain increases headcount

Mortgage Brain has recruited 15 new members of staff over the past year to...

L&G appoints intermediary division director

Legal & General has appointed Craig Brown as director of its intermediary division. Brown...

New CEO for LMS

Nick Chadbourne, chief operating officer (COO) at conveyancing service provider and panel manager LMS, has...

BML hires business development quartet

Butterfield Mortgages Ltd (BML) has appointed four business development professionals as it seeks to expand...

Street’s Northview Group successor revealed

Craig McKinlay is to join the Northview Group as its sales and marketing director. McKinlay...

Duo join Uinsure

GI provider Uinsure has made two appointments. Ian Ballinger joins as head of key accounts...

Co-op Insurance appoints new chair

Peter Hubbard has been appointed as chair of the board of Co-op Insurance. His has...

LendInvest hires ex-Aldermore commercial mortgages head

LendInvest has appointed Ian Boden as its sales director. Boden (pictured) joins LendInvest...

Senior hires for Target Group

Target Group has announced several new senior appointments to its board of directors and within its...

Key Retirement appoints CEO

Key Retirement has promoted Will Hale to CEO. Hale, who joined Key Retirement Group in...

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

Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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