Hattie Tales has become Pure Retirement’s new business development manager for the south of England.

She working in business development for a national property specialist law firm for three years before moving into the equity release sector as a business relationship manager for Equilaw.

She said: “I am delighted to join Pure, I have always enjoyed working with the team on joint ventures and their company values and dedication to broker support fits well with how work. I have some big ideas for 2018, and coupled with the exciting ER market I cannot wait to get started.”

Pure Retirement has also had three more additions to its broker support team this month, and seen Chris Flowers moving into the role of head of distribution.

Flowers said: “At Pure we’re dedicated to providing a first class service for advisers and Hattie is a great fit for our company and our culture of putting the customer first.

“She will be a real asset to the team, enabling us to support more advisers in meeting the increasing demand from customers in the vastly growing lifetime mortgage market.”