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Non-traditional options for SMEs

If an SME is turned away from a high street lender, other options are...

How financial institutions are embracing change

The notion of a 'tipping point' became part of the public psyche after Malcolm...

Reasons to be cheerful (part ’13)

I’ve always been an optimistic type and the mortgage market is providing plenty of...

Good times for buy-to-let

The buy-to-let sector hardly needed any further stimulation, but received another shot in the...

Do your homework

When was the last time that you checked what your club offered? Are...

Don’t ignore the silver surfers

When you think of the average internet user – and the typical social media...

Financial incentives and the FCA

The TCF initiative has been with us for a number of years now. It...

Specialist lending & complex investment opportunities

As confidence increases in the commercial property market, our brokers are reporting a growing...

BTL fraud is everyone’s business

While landlords, lenders and brokers are no doubt enjoying the growth of the buy-to-let...

Solicitors remain uncertain about activity

Many outside the housing market are continually looking for signs of an improving market...

Huge potential still from protection

Although the protection market is enjoying something of a purple patch at present –...

Shifting attitudes towards inheritance?

The interest-only time bomb stories may have died down slightly from the wall-to-wall coverage...

Let’s not ‘innovate’ ourselves into another disaster

I’ve written before about the use of the word ‘innovation’ in the mortgage marketplace...

‘Know your broker’ is changing face of DA market

The Know your Broker initiative is having a real effect on directly authorised advisers...
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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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Economy

MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...
Commercial mortgages

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...
Buy-to-let

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...
Appointments

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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