Appointments

Just Mortgages appoints development directors

National broker firm, Just Mortgages, has appointed three new development directors. The trio will work...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries appoints new London BDM

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has appointed Melanie Merchant as a business development manager (BDM)...

Life broker appoints chief people officer

Life insurance broker, Reassured, has appointed Mareena Flint as its new chief people officer...

Steve Griffiths joins TML board

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has appointed Steve Griffiths, its sales and product director, to...

Two senior appointments for Tenet&You

Tenet Group has appointed Simon Broadley as managing director of its owned adviser business,...

Bridge Help hires new BDM

Bridging loan provider, Bridge Help, has added to its business development team with the...

Skipton appoints BDM for the South West

Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries has appointed Steve Bond to the team of business...

Foundation Home Loans creates pair of managing directors

Foundation Home Loans lender has announced the creation of two managing directors. Kelly Pallister is...

Hodge appoints new chief operating officer

Hodge has appointed former Ascentric chief executive, Rob Regan, as its new chief operating...

Harpenden BS appoints commercial director

Mike Cutler has been appointed as Harpenden Building Society’s commercial director. In this newly created...

First 4 Bridging hires head of intermediary relations

First 4 Bridging (F4B) has appointed Besmir Kurti as head of intermediary relations for...

Source Insurance appoints director of sales

General insurance provider, Source Insurance, has appointed Carl Oakes as its new director of...

Two new recruits at Alternative Bridging Corporation

Alternative Bridging Corporation has appointed a new underwriter and a case manager. Robert Seymour has...

OneFamily appoints director of intermediaries and partnerships

OneFamily has announced the appointment of Alan Waddington as its new director of intermediaries...

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Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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Rightmove warns property tax reforms could stall housing market

Rightmove has warned the government that proposed changes to property taxation risk distorting the...

Bradford retains crown as UK’s leading property hotspot

Bradford has once again been named the country’s most in-demand housing market, topping OnTheMarket’s...

Keystone reduces expat buy-to-let rates and adds new product

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates across its expat buy-to-let range, cutting selected fixed...

Gatehouse cuts buy-to-let rental rates and eases paperwork

Gatehouse Bank has cut rental rates by 0.25% across its buy-to-let purchase plans for...