Appointments

Premier Asset Finance appoints managing director

Ken McKeating, former sales director for SME lending at Paragon Bank, has been appointed...

Two new hires for Crystal Specialist Finance

Crystal Specialist Finance has expanded its sales team with the appointment of Ben Humphreys...

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance appoints regional MD

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has bolstered its management team with the appointment of...

Time Finance makes new BDM appointment

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Neil Fullbrook as business development manager in...

Gatehouse Bank appoints NED

Gatehouse Bank has appointed Lesley Beecher as a new non-executive director. Beecher has over 30...

Nick Jones becomes director of Freedom for Intermediaries

Freedom Finance has appointed Nick Jones as director of Freedom for Intermediaries. In his new...

Envelop appoints Midlands-based BDM

Envelop has further bolstered its sales support team with the addition of Neil Nisbet...

Willow Private Finance appoints senior HNW mortgage broker

Willow Private Finance has announced the appointment of David Habib CeMAP as senior high...

New Air CEO amidst senior team restructure

Air, the platform for later life lending professionals, has restructured its senior team. Paul Glynn...

MPowered Mortgages appoints key account manager for the South 

MPowered Mortgages has announced the promotion of Simon Clark to key account manager (KAM)...

Reward boosts London and South East team

Reward Finance Group has appointed Tom Annetts as its new relationship manager, as it...

Spring Finance appoints head of sales for bridging

Specialist lender Spring Finance has announced the appointment of Owen Bentley as head of...

Broker Conveyancing appoints new area managers

Broker Conveyancing has announced the appointment of two new account managers. Both Joe Hart and...

AIG Life appoints MD of individual protection

UK life insurer AIG Life has announced that Nick Austin has been named managing...

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

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...

Precise cuts residential mortgage offer times with new platform

Precise has launched a residential mortgage platform after a pilot reduced average application-to-offer times...

Impaired credit mortgage sales rise to highest level since 2008

Mortgage lending to borrowers with impaired credit histories has climbed to levels not seen...

Councils to gain earlier powers over long-term empty homes

Councils will be able to intervene when homes have stood empty for six months...

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