Appointments

The Leeds appoints head of business intelligence

The Leeds Building Society has appointed Chris Long as head of business intelligence. Long (pictured)...

Key hire for the Right Mortgage & Protection Network

Jane Benjamin, former regional sales director at Pink Network, has joined The Right Mortgage...

HLP makes senior management appointment

HomeLoan Partnership (HLP) has announced the appointment of Martin Sims as development director. Sims joins from...

New ASTL executive committee lineup revealed

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has elected its new executive committee.   Five...

Max Wright becomes PTFS chairman

Former CEO of Personal Touch Financial Services, Max Wright, has now now taken on his new...

Shawbrook hires London development manager

Marc Champ has been appointed as regional development manager for London by Shawbrook Bank’s...

LSL joins up management of networks

LSL Property Services has announced that Richard Coulson’s role as business development director of...

Chartered surveyor takes up RICS Scotland role

Eric Curran, managing partner of DM Hall LLP, a firm of chartered surveyors in...

Anna Bennett joins Positive Lending

Specialist packager Positive Lending has announced the appointment of Anna Bennett into the newly...

Former TMA marketing manager joins network

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has revealed that former TMA marketing manager Lauren Bagley has...

Boardroom changes at Target

Target Group has announced a restructuring of its board to prepare the business for further growth...

L&G hires retirement market chief

Legal & General has appointed Andy Humphreys as its marketing director for individual retirement....

Seaholme promoted at Shawbrook

Gavin Seaholme has been promoted to the position of regional development manager for the...

Shawbrook appoints BDM for East Anglia

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has appointed Daryl Norkett as business development manager (BDM). He...

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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