Appointments

Affordable housing hire at Marsh & Parsons

Marsh & Parsons has appointed Matt Bird as its new head of affordable housing. He will...

Mortgage Brain adds to corporate account team

Mortgage Brain has appointed Sharon Marshall its corporate account management team. Marshall (pictured) worked...

Buy to Let Business grows office and staff

The Buy to Let Business and its mortgage club Buy to Let Club has...

CML Cymru chair appointed

Julie-Ann Haines, customer director for Principality Building Society, has been appointed chair of CML Cymru. She succeeds...

The Ipswich expands intermediary team

The Ipswich Building Society has appointed a new business development manager. Andrew Sadler...

Commercial restructure at Aldermore

Aldermore has restructured its commercial mortgages sales team. Ian Boden has been appointed to the...

NatWest IS appoints area sales manager

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed Paula Dillin as the new area sales manager (ASM)...

Pair appointed to Shawbrook’s commercial sales team

Shawbrook Bank has appointed Ade Akande as sales operations manager and Paul Cater as...

Kevin Thomson joins CMC

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has appointed Kevin Thomson as its sales director. He will oversee...

Twenty7Tec hires product manager

Twenty7Tec has announced the appointment of Derek Kilner as the new product manager for...

Alpha Bridging expands sales team

Alpha Bridging has appointed Jeff Bungar to develop new business through the intermediary sector...

The Leeds appoints non-exec

Leeds Building Society has appointed John Hunt as a non-executive director. Hunt (pictured) joins the Society...

LendInvest hires Microsoft director

LendInvest has recruited Bart Boezeman in the new role of chief marketing officer. Boezeman...

SMS boosts customer service team

Solent Mortgage Services (SMS) has expanded its customer service team in response to increasing...

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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