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RICS outlines its market predictions for 2015

House prices in the UK will see an average increase of 3% over the...

LBG awards grants to 17 credit unions

Lloyds Banking Group is awarding £1m in grants to 17 credit unions in 2014...

Govt recommendations to strengthen enforcement decisions

The government has published a series of recommendations to help the Financial Conduct Authority...

Brokers praise Mortgage Vision events

96% of attendees of the 2014 series of Mortgage Vision events rated them...

Smart Money moves to larger Glasgow office

Smart Money has announced an office move for its Scottish office to larger premises...

P2P will redistribute the profits of buy-to-let

The mortgage industry is going to be 'revolutionised' by peer-to-peer finance, starting with secured...

Over 33% of credit reports contain errors

Mistakes on credit reports could wrongly be contributing to millions of British consumers being...

Connect Mortgage Club to offer second charge BTL

Connect Mortgage Club has added secured loans master broker The Loans Engine to its...

Smart Money moves into bridging finance

Smart Money will be adding full bridging support for intermediaries to its services from...

Promise wins second charge packager award

Promise Solutions picked up the award for second charge packager of 2014 at the...

Vantage Finance appoints head of sales

Vantage Finance has recruited Tim Bennett as its new head of sales. The packager says...

Brightstar wins Top Specialist Distributor award

Brightstar Financial won the Top Specialist Distributor award at the Precise Mortgages Awards, held...

LandBay offers festive reward to customers

Peer-to-peer lending platform Landbay is offering £50 of John Lewis vouchers to any new...

Y3S Group takes 50% stake in secured loans packager

Y3S Group has acquired 50% of Chaseblue Loans Ltd. Both businesses package secured loans for...

COMMENT

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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