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Asset finance market continues to grow

There was a 9% increase in the size of the asset finance market in...

Stand-off between buyers and sellers: Rightmove

49% of people planning to buy in the next year believe current house prices...

Commercial brokers want more government action

82% of brokers operating in the bridging, development finance and asset finance sectors believe...

Spain to review Coastal Law implications for property owners

Spain says it intends to improve legal certainty for property owners along the Spanish...

Still a market for ‘micro mortgages’, says lender

Cheshire Mortgage Corporation has told brokers not to overlook the potential for recommending 'micro...

National Parks provide house price premium

House prices in the National Parks of England and Wales in 2012 are, according...

Tesco Bank launches mortgage range

Tesco Bank has published details of its mortgage range, available from Monday 6 August. The...

Funding for Lending ‘pushing mortgage rates down’

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will want to see what impact...

Santander cuts mortgage rates

Santander has cut the rates on over 20 mortgage products in its range by...

New sales manager at Omni Capital

Omni Capital has appointed Anthony Murphy to the position of sales manager. The specialist short-term...

RBS pre-tax losses worsen

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reported a half-year pre-tax loss of £1.5 billion. This...

AFI’s NewBuy rates reduced

Santander has reduced rates on its three, five and seven-year fixed rate NewBuy mortgages...

60% earnings gender gap at 50

The average 50-year-old man earns almost 60% more than the average 50-year-old woman, with...

Oakwood Global Finance hires commercial director

Martin Frazer has been appointed by Oakwood Global Finance as its commercial director. He is...

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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