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Keeping complaints to a minimum

The publication of the latest complaints data can be a nervous time for some...

Choose your conveyancing partner wisely

While some may look upon the recent pronouncement by the British Chamber of Commerce...

It makes sense to team up over advice

If you rewind back a few years to before the global financial crisis, financial...

What DAs want

TMA recently hosted a focus group with a group of directly authorised mortgage and...

Government proactivity is encouraging

Given the criticisms the government’s Help to Buy scheme has received since the Budget...

Are you treating yourself fairly?

For many advisers, the first few months of 2013 will have been as taxing...

Effective startup funding is key

Keeping up with the latest technological innovations is fundamental to business success and laws...

Don’t let PPI scare you off selling insurance

Given the integral role that protection now plays in the average mortgage broker’s proposition...

Things to get tougher for the elderly

Much was made in the past of how equity release could be used to...

RDR has contracted the adviser market

There was much speculation in the lead-up to the implementation of the RDR about...

Brokers shouldn’t forget lessons from the downturn

In my last column I mentioned how 2013 seemed to have got off to...

UK banking behind on technology

The bank of the future holds many layers of mystery and unimaginable scope for...

Size isn’t always everything

If any further proof were needed that buy-to-let is the place to be at...

The flaws in the social care cap

Given some of the political reaction to the recently announced £75,000 social care cap,...
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COMMENT

Comment

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...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

Five things brokers across the country are telling me right now

The thing I’ve always enjoyed most about working in the specialist mortgage market is the people. I’m lucky that a big part of my job...

The FCA has made the case for holistic mortgage advice

Last Thursday, the head of the FCA stood up at the JP Morgan Pensions and Savings Symposium and dropped a line that deserves more...

Technology’s biggest challenge is not the one you think

There is a version of the mortgage technology story that gets told at conferences and in trade press with some regularity. It involves platforms, disruption...

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News

Property sector must embrace long-term reform to withstand global shocks, says OPDA

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has called on the government to adopt a...
News

Rent rises hold steady as UK house price growth slows

Private rents across the UK rose at the same annual rate in February, while...
results

Movera reports rise in completions as expansion gathers pace

Home moving group Movera has reported a sharp increase in activity across its conveyancing...
Technology

NatWest begins digital mortgage completions with PEXA rollout

NatWest is now actively transacting on PEXA’s digital property platform, marking a key step...

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