Appointments

Saxon Trust appoints head of sales & marketing

Saxon Trust has announced the appointment of Brian West as its new head of sales...

Vida strengthens team with three new appointments

Vida has announced a number of key appointments to its senior team. Helen Cawthra has...

Leeds BS appoints director of mortgage distribution

Leeds Building Society has appointed Martese Carton to the newly-created role of director of...

New chair announced for OneFamily

OneFamily has announced that its chair of nearly seven years, Christina McComb, is to...

Assetz Capital boosts Northern origination team

Assetz Capital has promoted two staff members to strengthen its growing origination team in...

Upton to lead HTB’s development finance division

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) is expanding its development finance proposition to nearly double to...

Pepper Money appoints head of sales for second charge mortgages

Pepper Money has promoted Tom Whitney to the position of head of sales for...

Enra appoints ex-Loans Engine boss as programme manager

Enra Specialist Finance has appointed Ryan McGrath as its new programme manager to deliver...

Brilliant Solutions promotes for new head of key accounts role

Ivan Vizor has been promoted to the newly formed role of head of key...

Skipton BS appoints first female chair

Skipton Building Society is appointing Gwyn Burr as its new chair, subject to regulatory...

Castle Trust Bank appoints director of proposition & strategy

Castle Trust Bank has appointed Anna Lewis to the newly created role of director of...

Darlington BS bolsters executive team

Darlington Building Society has appointed two new executive team members from within its own...

FCA appoints new Practitioner Panel chair

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Direct Line Group CEO, Penny James, as chair...

Sam Marshall becomes Pepper Money NED

Pepper Money has announced the appointment of Sam Marshall as a non-executive director following...

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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...