Appointments

Proportunity hires its first national account manager

Matt Surridge has joined Proportunity as national account manager. Surridge (pictured, left) joins Proportunity from fintech...

Two new hires at Tuscan Capital

Tuscan Capital has announced two new appointments as it expands its team. Carmen Albert...

Black & White Bridging appoints new relationship manager

Black & White Bridging has appointed Mason Ward to help develop and manage new...

Openwork Partnership appoints managing director

The Openwork Partnership has appointed Stuart Dodson to the new role of managing director. He...

Specialist Finance Centre launches SFC Scotland

Specialist Finance Centre (SFC) has announced the launch of its proposition into Scotland as...

Enra Specialist Finance appoints CTO

Enra Specialist Finance has appointed Aris Karidis as its new chief technology officer (CTO). Karidis...

New chair for Society of Mortgage Professionals

Carlos Thibaut, formerly CEO of 360Dotnet, is to become the new chair of the...

Two new hires at Hampshire Trust Bank

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has strengthened its asset finance division with two experienced senior...

Jane Benjamin joins Connect for Intermediaries

Jane Benjamin has been appointed to the newly created role of director of mortgages at...

Reward boosts Yorkshire and North East business development team

Reward Finance Group has appointed Harriet Gibbs as business development director in its Leeds...

LiveMore Capital bolsters leadership team

LiveMore Capital has announced the appointment of Simon Webb as managing director of capital...

Cirencester Friendly hires interim director of distribution and sales

Cirencester Friendly has made another key appointment to its senior management team. Andy Peters has...

New FLA chair announced

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has announced the appointment of Rebecca McNeil as...

UTB appoints asset finance head of sales

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Astrid Michael as its new head of sales...

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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...