Appointments

New presidential teams at ARLA and NAEA

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) and National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA)...

New senior adviser for LendInvest

Stephan Wilcke has joined LendInvest as a senior adviser. Wilcke was executive chairman of OneSavings...

Trio of appointments for The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender has announced the appointment of three new key account managers. Sandra Harrington,...

New chartered surveyors for DM Hall

DM Hall, the Scottish firm of independent chartered surveyors, has produced two new chartered surveyors from its graduate development...

New BDM for Kensington

Gemma Lang has joined Kensington as business development manager (BDM) for the North London...

New jobs at Target Group

Target Group has created over 250 new jobs. The planned expansion follows last week’s announcement...

ABI announces new chairman

Andy Briggs, CEO of Aviva UK Life and chairman of Aviva Global Life, has been...

Pepper hires regional manager for the north

Pepper Homeloans has appointed Ryan Brailsford as its regional development manager for the north...

P2P platform appoints former Aldermore heavyweight

Peer-to-peer lending platform CrowdProperty.com has announced the appointment of Mark Stephens as non-executive director....

Key hires for OneSavings Bank brands

OneSavings Bank has made a series of new appointments across its Kent Reliance, InterBay...

Vantage Finance appoints chairman

The former CEO of Aviva’s life insurance business has been appointed as chairman of...

BFS appoints UK risk director

Bibby Financial Services has appointed Ray Lowrey as UK risk director. First joining the business funder...

V Loans boosts bridging team

V Loans has appointed a business development manager and a case manager to its...

Septet joins second charge player

Second charge distributor Fluent Money has announced the appointment of seven new members of...

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

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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