The lender has taken over a third floor at its Flagship House head office in Fleet, in order to accommodate a growing number of employees across all its teams, following its recruitment drive over the past few months.

Fleet has also expanded into Starling Bank’s Cardiff office with an initial team of underwriters, and is looking to take more space in the city as it looks to add further members to this department.

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Steve Cox, chief commercial officer at Fleet Mortgages (pictured above), commented: “Since the start of 2022, and even more so in recent months, we have been focused on a full-scale recruitment drive across all departments, and also now in two distinct regional centres.

“This drive has meant we have added a considerable amount of human resource, both here in Fleet and also now in Cardiff, so there has been a need to expand our office footprint in order to house these new recruits, and to also future-proof the business.

“Given record new business volumes, being able to deliver quality service to our intermediary partners is of tantamount importance and that’s the sole purpose of our growth.

“This has been a very busy time for Fleet in terms of meeting growing demand, and we’re pleased to be able to announce the expansion of our operation further in order to process today’s workload, but also hit our ambitious growth plans.”