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Assurant Intermediary unveils free training facility

Assurant Intermediary has launched a free online training facility for intermediaries. The service is designed...

Skipton Financial Services features in Best Companies poll

Skipton Financial Services (SFS) is the best company to work for in North Yorkshire. This...

Strong rise in private sector output

Private sector output expanded last month at its fastest pace since June 2007, before...

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Valuations up in February

The number of residential mortgage valuations in February was up by nearly a quarter...

Dealing with Easter, royal weddings and holidays

Don't totally write off those 11 days in April/May, argues Justin Rees, director of...

Market effectively to your existing clients

Technology should be used to manage existing clients, says Richard Adams, managing director of...

First 4 Bridging offers 0.99%pcm exclusive

London-based master broker, First 4 Bridging, is offering a first charge bridging product of...

New chairman for CML Scotland

Jim Dunn, general manager of the Scottish Building Society, has become chairman of CML...

Paymentcare.co.uk launches new B&C insurance

Paymentcare.co.uk has unveiled a new Buildings and Contents (B&C) insurance policy. The product is designed...

Personnel changes following Linear joining Pink network

Linear Financial Solutions has joined the Pink Home Loans network. Linear is part of the...

FTBs top unbiased.co.uk enquiries

Unbiased.co.uk's 'find a mortgage adviser' search again revealed 'first time buying' as the number...

London and S East boosting house prices

February saw monthly house prices increase by 0.3%, according to the latest house price...

Significant minority of finance professionals expect double-dip

More than one third of financial services practitioners think the UK faces a double-dip...

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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...