Appointments

Bevan Money appoints CEO

Bevan Money, the bank which focuses on the housing needs of public sector workers,...

SmartSearch appoints new VP of technology

SmartSearch has promoted Andrew Booth to the position of vice president of technology, one...

HTB expands development finance team

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the expansion of its development finance team with...

LiveMore expands sales team with new appointments

LiveMore has made two new appointments to its sales team. Nicola Palmer joins LiveMore...

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance appoints portfolio and structuring director

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance (STB CF) has announced the appointment of Will Duxbury...

Hope Capital appoints new head of sales

Hope Capital has appointed Kim Parker as head of sales. Parker (pictured) joined the specialist...

Legal & General Mortgage Services expands distribution team

Legal & General Mortgage Services has announced an expanded distribution team headed up by...

OMS hires Kevin Blount as head of operations

One Mortgage System (OMS) has appointed Kevin Blount as its head of operations. Blount (pictured)...

Royal London makes key protection appointments

Royal London has appointed two senior roles in its protection business. Fiona Wynn has...

Gen H appoints head of lending

Gen H has announced the appointment of Karen Appleton as its new head of...

Countrywide Surveying Services appoints performance director

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of property risk management, valuations and customer surveys,...

Cynergy Business Finance appoints new corporate sales director

Asset-based lending specialist, Cynergy Business Finance (CBF), has added to its team with the...

Right Mortgage appoints protection development manager

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and DA Club has announced the appointment of...

HTB appoints head of specialist mortgages proposition

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of David Stiff as its head...

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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