Andrea Gizzy will cover North London, Central London and South East England.

The range caters for a range of property and borrower types.

Rate reductions apply across large portfolio, HMO and short-term let products.

The relaunched ranges support both large and complex HMOs/MUFBs, short-term lets and trading company borrowers.

James replaces Holly Morrison, who was Paragon’s BDM for Scotland before being appointed to national account manager.

Five-year rates now start from 4.84%.

Two and five-year fixed rates are available for both standard and specialist properties, such as HMOs and multi unit properties.

Buy-to-let rates have reduced by up to 0.35%.

Offa says its new buy-to-let proposition will meet the needs of both Muslim and non-Muslim property investors.

The Bank says the launch is part of its continued focus on specialist lending.