Castle Trust has appointed Charissa Chang as business development manager for the North to support the lender’s continuing growth in the region.
Chang joins from the specialist lender Together, where she was a business development manager covering the North West.
With over 17 years of experience, Chang also worked at Tenet Group where she built strong relationships with brokers, supporting them with business growth and development.
Chang will be part of the lender’s growing sales team and will look to support its increasing presence across the North, spanning from the North West across to Yorkshire.
Marcus Dussard, sales director at Castle Trust, said: “The increasing demand from landlords for specialist buy-to-let investments, such as HMOs, multi-unit lets and holiday lets, is nationwide and we are growing the number of brokers we work with in the North of England.
“Charissa has fantastic knowledge, experience and contacts in the region and I’m very happy to welcome her to the team. We are looking forward to working together to help more brokers access truly flexible solutions to help their clients realise more value from property.”
Chang said: “The mortgage market is a crowded place, but Castle Trust excels as a lender and offers brokers something different.”
Victoria Hartley is contributing editor at Mortgage Solutions, Specialist Lending Solutions, Your Money and Your Mortgage at London-based publishing company AE3 Media.
She has an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths after gaining a 2:1 in a Comparative American Studies BA at Warwick University. She also holds a TEFL qualification and taught overseas in Mexico and Japan from 1994 to 1997.
Her role includes editorial oversight of the news, analysis and features, event content management and strategic and editorial consultancy for the AE3 Media group. She is an experienced video, broadcast and live-event host and regularly chairs web and podcast debates and interviews.
Multiple award nominations have resulted in two wins: Santander Media Awards, trade journalist of the year and Headlinemoney Awards, mortgage journalist of the year (B2B). Here is one of the award-winning pieces: https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2011/07/21/exclusive-tale-bailey-fraud-witness/
Previous roles include editorships of Mortgage Solutions, consumer title What Mortgage and trade title Credit Today as well as a stint freelancing for a variety of outlets including The Guardian and Which? Money.
