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Alternative investment: angels and assets

Raising money really isn’t easy. Otherwise, I guess, we’d all be doing it! Funding the...

Promotions and the Olympics: marketing your way into trouble

Did someone mention the Olympics? Anyone seen (or sold!) an Olympic torch? Is your...

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The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

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Higher mortgage rates put buyers in driving seat as sales fall

Higher mortgage rates have pushed buyers firmly into the driving seat, with agreed sales...

Stent to take over as MAB finance chief as Imlach leaves board

Mortgage Advice Bureau has confirmed Jo Stent will become group chief financial officer and...

Virgin Money raises residential fixed rates by up to 0.20%

Virgin Money is increasing a range of residential purchase, remortgage and product transfer fixed...

Government commits to licensing property agents but detail remains unclear

The government has committed to mandatory licensing and qualifications for property agents as part...

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