Appointments

Open Property Data Association unveils first intermediary exec member

Dale Jannels, CEO at One Mortgage System (OMS), has joined the executive committee of...

The Exeter appoints NED pair to board

The Exeter has announced the appointment of Suzanne Clark and Kelvin Malayapillay as non-executive...

Gatehouse Bank promotes within business development team

Gatehouse Bank has promoted Thomas Humphreys to the role of lead telephony business development...

West One Loans makes three senior hires

West One Loans’ residential team has reintroduced its range of fixed rates and made...

CSS appoints director of retrofit

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of valuation panel management services, has announced the...

InterBay appoints specialist finance account manager

OSB Group has promoted Charlotte Parker to specialist finance account manager (SFAM) for the...

Alternative Bridging hires underwriting head

Alternative Bridging Corporation has appointed Claire O’Brien as head of underwriting. O’Brien (pictured), who...

Andrea Glasgow becomes specialist mortgage sales director at HTB

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Andrea Glasgow as sales director,...

OSB appoints BDM for the South

Specialist lender OSB Group has promoted Joe Baxter to the role of customer-facing business...

Bibby Financial Services appoints BDM for Scotland

Invoice finance provider, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has appointed Gayle Robertson as business development...

ONP Group hires group partnerships manager

Conveyancing firm, ONP Group, has bolstered its senior management team with the appointment of...

Roma Finance appoints head of field sales

Roma Finance has appointed Sonia Mann as head of field sales. She has also joined...

Three new hires at Somo Bridging

Specialist lender, Somo Bridging, has expanded its team with the appointment of a new...

Air Academy appoints head of academy learning

Air, the platform for later life lending professionals, has appointed Dan Holden into the...

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

Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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