West One Loans has brought back its range of fixed-rate residential loans and boosted its senior team.  

The specialist lender now offers two- and five-year loans covering its Platinum, Prime Plus, Prime and Near Prime products.  

Its five-year fixes start at 6.84%, while its two-year fixes begin at 7.21%.  

West One Loans managing director of residential mortgages and second charge Marie Grundy says: “I’m confident we are building a reputation as lender in the residential market that is fair, flexible and competitive, and the reintroduction of our popular Platinum, Prime Plus, Prime and Near Prime fixed rate ranges builds on that.”  

The firm has also hired Steve Mannakee as national account manager “to grow” the home loans unit, which launched last October and is aimed at borrowers who are “underserved by high street lenders”. 

Mannakee joins from Pepper Money, after taking up a post as a regional development manager in 2018. He has more than 25 years of experience in the sector, which includes roles at HSBC, Lambeth Building Society, and C&G.   

West One adds that it has hired Katie Wild and Lizzie Fonseca for its residential and second charge teams.   

Wild joins as business development manager for the South, and was previously national account manager at Loans Warehouse.  

Fonseca joins as a broker support manager, after being head of sales at Loans Warehouse.  

Grundy adds: “We have the funding, product offering and the experience in place to make a huge splash in this area of the market in the coming months and years.”