Appointments

Foundation Home Loans appoints regional account manager

Foundation Home Loans has announced the appointment of Sarah Hartwell as a regional account...

OSB Group appoints ESG specialists

OSB Group has recruited two new ESG roles to support their social commitment which...

Rockstead appoints David Hunter

Rockstead, the due diligence and business review provider, has welcomed David Hunter to its...

Tuscan Capital appoints regional sales manager

Tuscan Capital has announced that Sherice Neil has joined the lender as a regional...

Sancus appoints BDM

Mark Corfield has joined the Sancus Lending (UK) business development team, reporting to UK...

Paragon Bank appoints development finance relationship director

Paragon Bank’s development finance division has appointed Martin Crossley as relationship director. Crossley (pictured) joins Paragon...

LiveMore expands BDM team

LiveMore has welcomed three new business development managers (BDMs) to its sales team. Darren Cunliffe...

Somo unveils three new appointments

Specialist lending firm Somo Bridging is preparing for further growth in 2023 with the...

Grenville Turner becomes chairman of Silbury Finance

Silbury Finance, the development lender backed by Oaktree Capital Management, has appointed Grenville Turner...

Legal & General Home Finance announces new distribution director

Legal & General Retail has announced the appointment of David Jones as distribution director...

Suffolk BS unveils new chairman

Suffolk Building Society is welcoming Peter Elcock as its new chairman, succeeding Alan Harris...

Pepper appoints BDM for North of England & Scotland

Pepper Money has promoted Anthony Fisher from the role of regional broker account manager...

MPowered Mortgages appoints new head of intermediary distribution

MPowered Mortgages has announced that Paul Kane will become its new head of intermediary distribution. In...

Alternative Bridging makes marketing appointment

Alternative Bridging Corporation has added its marketing team with the recruitment of Tanvi Shah...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

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...

Latest news

Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...

Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

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