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The Source appoints BDM

Source Insurance has announced the appointment of David Carr as business development manager for...

South East house price growth outstripping London

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that average house prices increased by...

Inflation rises above expectations

March data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed a higher than...

SortRefer expands conveyancing panel

SortRefer has announced the expansion of its select conveyancing panel. New conveyancers include Shakespeare Martineau;...

LV=: make retirees’ downsizing stamp duty exempt

LV= has called for retirees to be made exempt from stamp duty if they...

ASTL reveals new associate member

Shakespeare Martineau LLP has become the latest law firm to join the Association of...

Debt burden for older parents

Having children later in life is impacting the amount of debt people have as...

New Street completes five-day mortgage app

For the first time, New Street Mortgages has issued a mortgage offer within five...

Source Commercial expands online landlord portfolio proposition

Source Commercial has announced the addition of Covea to its online landlord portfolio panel....

March surge in first-time buyer activity

Connells Survey & Valuation has reported that in March the total number of valuations...

Kensington now distributed by Brightstar 

Kensington, which announced its decision to work with specialist distribution again last month, has selected Brightstar...

Warning sounded over informal lease extensions

It has been claimed that UK flat owners waste tens of thousands of pounds...

£400m in pensions used to fund businesses

Since the so-called 'pension freedoms' came into force a year ago, business owners aged...

FCA approves change of control for Everyday Loans

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has given the green light for Non Standard Finance...
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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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