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Leaders signs up to SAFEagent

Specialist letting agents, Leaders, has become the latest firm to join the nationwide SAFEagent...

Saffron transfers IFA business to Towergate Financial

Saffron Building Society has transferred the financial planning activities undertaken by the Society's subsidiary,...

Tenants staying put for longer

Tenants are now spending on average 19.3 months in their homes, the Association of...

Santander estimates FTB stamp duty savings

First time buyers have saved an estimated £319 million as a result of the...

Q4 2011 a good period for buy-to-let

More than a third of mortgage intermediaries saw an influx of buy-to-let business in...

Barclays makes key retail and business banking hire

Barclays has announces the appointment of Steve Weston as managing director of retail lending...

RBS and Natwest TV ads banned

Two TV ads for Natwest and The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), have been...

Post Office cuts mortgage rates

The Post Office is cutting its mortgage rates by up to 1.01 percentage points...

Stonebridge expands &’039limited&’039 panel

Stonebridge Group has added Legal & General to its limited life and protection panel. &...

89% of FTBs bought a stamp duty-free home

Of the 331,899 first-time buyer loans taken out between the start of the stamp...

UTB makes Liddle appointment

United Trust Bank has made a new appointment. The lender has hired Sharon Liddle as...

Masthaven set for Spring second charge launch

Masthaven Secured Loans is set to launch into the secured loans market in the...

Bridging the equity release gap

Specialist advisers are key to equity release's growth, explains Peter Welch, head of sales...

Leads: for and against

Is lead generation for you? While it might sound strange coming from a lead provider,...

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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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