Blogs

Are the Stamp Duty rumours dead?

Parliament may currently be officially in recess but the real truth of the matter...

What will happen to a post-Brexit Bank Rate?

With all eyes on the ongoing political situation, there are likely to be some...

Tackling the problems in the insolvency sector head on

In the early-to-mid-2000s, there was a large expansion of credit which coincided with a...

Get the right support to service demand

In the mortgage market we must always make time to consider emerging risks, such...

Ask questions of your conveyancing partner

Access to most forms of information are now only a click, maybe two, away....

When one lender isn’t enough

Where do you turn when your client wants to refinance a large portfolio? Sometimes,...

Provide certainty amidst Brexit chaos

While many minds might be concentrated on the UK’s political melodrama which is playing...

Clients mustn’t forget to insure items they have ‘tucked away’

Garden sheds and garages are a great way to get some extra storage, particularly...

Don’t widen the protection gap

There’s always a considerable amount of talk in the adviser market about product diversification,...

The five-year fix

It wasn’t too long ago that five years was viewed as a length of...

Conveyancing needs a tech revamp

Conveyancing doesn’t have its own moniker to rank alongside 'FinTech', 'PropTech' or 'RegTech' but...

Building societies go where other lenders might fear to tread

Understandably there is a great deal of ‘noise’ around the later life lending market...

Maintaining confidence in conveyancing

We live (and work) in highly-regulated times – I probably don’t need to tell...

Fleet Mortgages: how we dealt with the downtime

Keeping staff motivated and engaged can be a difficult job at the best of...

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Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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