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Lending into retirement: nice to have or necessity?

There are more than 10 million people in the UK over 65 and the...

Understanding the fall in home ownership

The UK is a bit odd when it comes to home ownership. We’re one...

Is Flood Re starting to make an impact?

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) recently confirmed that 90% of claims resulting from...

Marketing to the younger generation

In order to appear ‘down with the kids’ I will begin this article with...

Is equity release expensive?

Several surveys have recently been published showing the majority of retirees will have to...

In praise of the accountant

In the world of professional services there are few more important needs than a...

Focus on the here and now

Understandably a large part of the mortgage market appears to be taking stock of...

Working through the uncertainty

Much of the focus of the post-EU referendum fallout has focused on consumer confidence,...

It’s a digital world

If there are any die-hard Madonna fans out there, forgive me for paraphrasing but...

Bridging the Brexit gap

Despite the sense of growing uncertainty in the light of Britain’s shock Brexit vote,...

Brexit may mean more of the status quo

If we were in any doubts about how politics shapes our lives then a...

Specialist lending powers ahead

There has been a lot of noise around the impending referendum and how the...

Buy-to-let fundamentals remain strong

If you were looking for the most obvious financial services headline of the year...

Was Osborne right to tackle buy-to-let?

The latest buy-to-let lending figures, issued by the Bank of England, may well give...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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