Appointments

Crown Mortgage Management appoints BDM

Crown Mortgage Management has appointed Sarah Green as business development manager (BDM). Green joins Crown...

Ageas makes senior management changes

Ageas has made a number of promotions within its senior management team. Barry Smith...

Sesame Bankhall Group appoints distribution director

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has hired Stephen Gazard as its distribution director. Gazard will...

MGM Advantage hires IT & change director

MGM Advantage has created a new role of IT & change director and appointed...

Metro Bank appoints chairman

Vernon Hill has been appointed as chairman of Metro Bank. Hill was founder and...

PTFS pair join First Complete

First Complete has hired two new senior members of staff. Martin Igoe joins the First...

Hastings hires marketing director

Insurance brokerage Hastings has appointed Nicola Charles as its new marketing director. Charles...

CDS Group appoints BDM

Barbara Carr has been appointed as business development manager (BDM) by CDS Group. She will...

Oakwood appoints technical services director

Oakwood Global Finance has appointed Steve Whitehouse as director of technical services. His role is...

West One Loans appoints non-executive director

Paul Huberman has joined West One Loans as a non-executive director. His role will...

Brightstar makes commercial appointment

Brightstar Financial has appointed Robert Collins to its commercial and bridging division. Collins has...

Precise appoints London BDM

Vicki Kingston has joined Precise Mortgages as a business development manager for central London. ...

Royal London appoints group finance & strategy director

Mutual life and pensions firm Royal London has appointed Kerr Luscombe to the role...

Aldermore makes invoice finance sales hire

Aldermore has appointed Paul Bowden as regional sales manager in its invoice finance team. He...

COMMENT

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...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Latest news

Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average...

Quantum Mortgages promotes Mihramane and Ajaib

Quantum Mortgages has made two internal promotions across its sales and completions teams as...

Complex incomes hindering aspiring Scottish buyers

More than half of Scottish adults with complex incomes who do not own a...

MAB adds three senior hires across marketing, finance and technology

Mortgage Advice Bureau has strengthened its executive team with three senior appointments spanning marketing,...

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