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Market forces shaping new housing supply

Hometrack’s latest Insight Paper analysis compares the new build landscape of 2006/7 – at...

New listings down nearly 10%

New sellers failed to raise their asking prices in the month of May for...

Firm gets permissions cancelled

The FSA has taken action against Carousel Finance Limited. The regulator has cancelled Carousel’s...

Brokers still missing out on alternative revenue streams

Y3S has expressed concern that many mortgage brokers are missing out on lucrative earning...

Fall in spending power

After inflation, spending power fell in April by 0.9% from a year earlier -...

April saw rent rises return

Rents rose for the first time in three months in April, according to the...

Promise to help with complex cases

Promise Solutions is to offer advice and packaging services for brokers with their more...

Steady growth for Scottish rental market

Scotland’s rental market continues to experience strong growth according to the latest rental report...

Business manager appointed for Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages

Phil Riches has joined Mortgages for Business as business manager – southern region -...

Tenants face higher energy bills than homeowners

Private tenants across England are more likely to incur higher energy bills than homeowners,...

Brokers praise Promise Solutions’ Punjabi and Urdu service

Promise Solutions says it has been praised for its creation of a Punjabi and...

Landlords want innovation in buy-to-let market

74% of landlords agree that the buy-to-let market needs greater innovation, according to research...

Nationwide cuts fixed and NewBuy rates

Nationwide Building Society is cutting its two and five year fixed rates by 0.10...

Jail for dodgy debt solutions directors

Two company directors in Manchester have been sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment each by...

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...

Latest news

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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