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North-South housing divide widening

Property sales have fallen significantly across England and Wales since 2007 amid a widening...

Brits’ retirement dreams established

Only 20% of Britons have achieved their travel ambitions and over half have not...

Q1 house prices down 0.3% year-on-year

House prices across the UK rose by 1.0% over the first quarter of 2011,...

New TBMC BTL exclusives with the Chorley

TBMC is offering two new exclusive buy-to-let mortgage products funded by the Chorley Building...

Confused.com launches insurance for damaged digits

Confused.com has today (Friday 1 April) announced the launch of a new insurance, the...

Survey shows true picture for wannabe FTBs

Over 80% of non-homeowning adults aspire to be a first time buyer, but less...

Moneyinfo reaches version 2.0

Sammedia has launched Moneyinfo 2.0, a white-labelled consumer facing, own-brand solution for IFAs and...

Xit2 teams up with Rightmove for valuation alerts

Xit2 has launched Valcheck, a real time valuation alert tool as part of its...

Mortgage Intelligence Holdings unveils Next Intelligence

Mortgage Next and Mortgage Intelligence have launched their new club, Next Intelligence. Launching on 4...

Rate changes from The Mortgage Works

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has made rate changes to its two-year tracker, stepped tracker...

PMS adopts MortgageBrain

Mortgage club PMS has selected Mortgage Brain's new sourcing system as one of its...

Morris begins Precise role

Roger Morris has joined Precise Mortgages as head of sales. He will oversee all...

Industry discusses RDR ramifications

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) will see the adviser community shrink by a further...

House prices continue slow recovery

House prices increased by 0.5% in March, according to the latest house price index...

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Stability is not a slowdown; it’s exactly what the bridging market needs

So, according to the recent Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) figures, bridging completions fell in Q2. Cue the usual hand-wringing. The headlines landed, the...

The rise of the silver pound

UK house prices may have cooled from their peak, but affordability pressures remain acute. Even with recent adjustments to interest rates, rising property values have...

Staggering stamp duty will make it easier for people to move

A proposal to spread stamp duty land tax payments across several years, in an effort to drive growth and boost the housing market, is...

Making Digital Sales Ready properties the norm, not the exception

Digital Sales Ready listings and upfront information have the potential to transform the home buying and selling journey, creating faster, more transparent transactions with...

Supercharging affordability: a broker’s tool for unlocking complex cases

If you could choose a superpower, what would it be? The ability to see the future? To slow down time? To get every case...

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Generation X faces retirement squeeze with smaller pensions than parents

Generation X risks becoming the first cohort to retire with less financial security than...

Leasehold reforms stall as sector warns of ‘real-world consequences’

The government is under mounting pressure to accelerate leasehold reform as the body representing...

Zoopla warns cost pressures mean housing targets are at risk

The government’s flagship target to deliver 1.5m new homes over the next five years...

UTB cuts bridging loan minimum and lowers regulated rates

United Trust Bank has unveiled a package of bridging loan changes aimed at making...