Appointments

New hire at the Teachers

Martin Harvey has been recruited as the new senior mortgage adviser at the Teachers Building Society. Harvey (pictured)...

SMS appoints office manager

Solent Mortgage Services (SMS) has announced the appointment of Debbie Robson as office manager. Robson started...

The Source expands sales team

Source Insurance has recruited a business development manager (BDM) to cover the West and South...

New BDMs for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has expanded its sales team with the addition of two further field-based business...

Countrywide adds to its corporate business team

Countrywide plc has appointed Scott Burman as corporate relationship director. He joins Countrywide from Lloyds...

Colin Bell joins Hampshire Trust to spearhead commercial launch

Colin Bell has become managing director of commercial mortgages at Hampshire Trust Bank. He has...

New chairman for the CML

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has announce the appointment of Peter Hill, chief executive of...

Duo joins Tenet board

The Tenet Group has announced that two existing directors have been appointed to its...

Together appoints general counsel

Nigel Dale is to join Together as its general counsel. He is currently a banking...

Together appoints group valuations manager

Andrew Murdoch has joined specialist lender Together as group valuations manager, following 12 years with...

The Leeds hires decision support head

The Leeds Building Society has appointed Fraser Collins as its head of decision support.  Collins (pictured) joins...

Commercial specialist joins Largemortgageloans.com

Largemortgageloans.com has made a new appointment to its senior management team. Charles Ayton joins as...

Two new regional sales directors for First Complete

First Complete has appointed two new members of staff to its team of regional sales directors....

Scottish Widows Bank appoints new managing director

Martin Fleming has been appointed as the new managing director of Scottish Widows Bank. ...

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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