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FCA launches vulnerable customer guidance for firms

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final guidance clarifying its expectations of firms...

Completions at a 10-year high

Property transactions completed in January were the highest in a decade, according to latest...

Average stamp duty saving during ‘holiday’ revealed

The stamp duty holiday is seeing homeowners in England and Wales save £11,566 on...

Q3 rebound for Help to Buy completions

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published Help to Buy equity loan statistics for...

Royal London paid out £13m for 2020 Covid claims

Insurer Royal London paid £13.1 million to over 2,100 customers' families for Covid-19 claims...

More adverse BTL borrowers expected

Research by Pepper Money has indicated that brokers expect to encounter more buy-to-let customers...

2020 bridging completions down 28%

Latest figures compiled by auditors from data provided by members of the Association of...

End of stamp duty holiday won’t stop portfolio expansion

Landlords still fully intend to continue purchasing rental property after the stamp duty holiday...

Credit concerns looming over renters

45% of renters surveyed for Aldermore say owning a home is a life goal...

Cost of supporting children through Covid revealed

The latest LV= Wealth and Wellbeing Monitor has found that 50% of parents with children aged...

Help to Buy legal completion date extended

The government has announced that while Help to Buy will end on 31 March...

Shawbrook ups maximum property value in AVM criteria

Shawbrook Bank has widened the criteria for its digital valuation service, to allow for...

No change from MPC amid GDP fall projection

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has once again voted unanimously to...

Dudley BS unveils ‘stamp duty offset’ mortgage

The Dudley Building Society has launched a mortgage aimed at purchasers who are unlikely...

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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...

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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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