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Olympic renters warned over insurance policies

Paymentshield has sounded a warning to wannabe landlords looking to profit from the London...

January busier than normal for rental market

Rents rose in January, according to the latest Buy-to-Let Index from LSL Property Services...

Rise in house building: DCLG

There was an increase in house building in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared...

HSBC appoints area commercial director

HSBC has appointed Leigh Briggs as area commercial director for Lancashire and Cumbria. She is...

Bankhall adds entry-level offering to proposition

Bankhall has launched a new 'Foundation' entry level package. It is aimed at adviser firms...

Openwork begins marketing support initiative for advisers

Openwork is launching an online support system, Smart Hub, which will enable advisers to...

Platform cuts buy-to-let rates

Platform has today reduced the rates on its range of two-year fixed rate buy-to-let...

Enness Private Clients launches case-tracking system

Enness Private Clients has unveiled 'Enness Introducers', an online system for introducers using its...

Pair joins Move with Us

Move with Us has made two senior appointments. Anthony Radford has joined the residential property...

New lifetime trackers from the Co-op

The Co-operative Bank is launching a new range of lifetime tracker mortgages tomorrow. It is...

Skipton cuts buy-to-let rates

Skipton Building Society has launched a new range of mortgages for property investors. Rates have...

Consumer confidence picks up

Consumer confidence staged a modest recovery at the start of 2012, picking up by...

Brilliant Solutions adds MBS Lending to panel

Brilliant Solutions is now offering a range of mortgages from Melton Mowbray Building Society's...

LV= pays out 95% of protection claims

LV= paid out 95% of protection claims, including 91% of income protection (IP) claims,...

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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