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Advice growth worrying accountants

Accountants are becoming concerned that growing demand for personal financial advice from clients is...

Mortgage Brain pleased with conveyancing service take-up

Mortgage Brain has revealed that over 500 brokers and financial advisers have adopted its new conveyancing...

The Ipswich makes four senior management appointments

The Ipswich Building Society has made four new appointments to its senior management team.  Ashley...

Steve Webb sounds Help to Save warning

A former pensions minister has has warned that the government’s ‘help to save’ scheme...

Shawbrook hires commercial mortgage product manager

Shawbrook Bank has announced the appointment of Steven Fitzhugh into the new role of product...

New BDM for Together

Together has expanded its regional sales team with the appointment of Laura Sneddon as...

Paragon calls for ‘thorough review’ of UK housing need

George Osborne has been urged to make no further changes to the taxation of landlords...

Pension providers welcome FAMR report

There has been a largely positive response to today's publication of the Financial Advice Market...

UTB posts pre-tax profit rise

United Trust Bank (UTB) has reported a 67% increase in profits after tax to...

Landlords divided over government BTL ‘clampdown’

59% of landlords surveyed by property crowdfunding platform Property Partner say they are shelving plans to...

Amicus posts record monthly figures

Amicus has revealed that February was a record for completed business. For the first time...

Financial Advice Market Review recommendations published

The Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR) report into access to affordable financial advice and...

Santander improves Help to Buy ISA rate

Santander’s new Help to Buy ISA rate is now available from today. The Help to Buy ISA, launched...

New chair for CML Scotland

Carol Anderson has been appointed new chair of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) in...

COMMENT

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...

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...

Latest news

Virgin Money raises selected mortgage rates by up to 75bps

Virgin Money is increasing selected purchase, remortgage, buy-to-let and product transfer rates from Thursday...

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...

Rent rises hold steady as UK house price growth slows

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

Movera reports rise in completions as expansion gathers pace

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

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