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Connells Survey and Valuation has reported that housing market activity showed rapid annual growth...

LSL joins up management of networks

LSL Property Services has announced that Richard Coulson’s role as business development director of...

24% rise in Nationwide’s net mortgage lending

Nationwide Building Society has published results for the second quarter of 2015. Gross mortgage lending...

TFC partners with Fleet Mortgages

TFC Homeloans has joined forces with Fleet Mortgages. The deal allows the distributor's brokers to...

Pepper Homeloans joins Complete FS panel

Complete FS has added Pepper Homeloans to its first charge buy-to-let and residential lender...

PFS: Treasury advice review is a unique opportunity

The Personal Finance Society has said that the Financial Advice Market Review announced by...

Zopa hails the ‘silver pound’

Zopa, which has just become the UK’s first peer-to-peer lender to pass £1 billion...

Millions of homeowners lack home security nous

32% of Britons admit to have gone out of the house leaving the windows...

ABI: 97.7% of all types of protection policy claims are paid

In 2014, £3.44bn was paid out by protection insurers to nearly 128,500 customers or...

Government action on SME late payment not working

Despite attempts by the government to enforce a code for prompt payment and plans...

Chartered surveyor takes up RICS Scotland role

Eric Curran, managing partner of DM Hall LLP, a firm of chartered surveyors in...

RIghtmove: strongest August market since credit crunch

The Seasonal August fall is house prices has been more muted than usual, with...

SMEs upbeat about their futures

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK are confident and optimistic about their...

MPC member warns of delaying rate rise

Kristin Forbes, one of the nine people that set UK interest rates, has warned...
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In an industry built on detail, judgement, resilience and relationships we often focus on performance, productivity and professionalism. But during Neurodiversity Celebration Week it’s worth...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business

If you’ve been in financial services long enough, you know that one great introducer can transform your business. Introducers, whether they are estate agents, accountants,...

Ignorance, not cost, still the biggest barrier to protection sales

During 2024 CIExpert commissioned Opinium to speak to 5,000 consumers – a mix of genders and ages – regarding critical illness (CI) insurance. The aim...

The protection gap that runs all the way up the ladder

The property ladder is usually talked about in terms of deposits, equity, and affordability but recent research reveals a less visible truth; moving up...

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