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Pain to quit regulator in 2011

Jon Pain, the FSA's managing director of Supervision and an FSA Board member, has...

New BDM for Masthaven

Bridging finance provider Masthaven has appointed Chris Parr as its new northern-based business development...

OpenConvey adds will writing service

Online conveyancing portal OpenConvey has added national estate planning service, Collective Legal Solutions, to...

Key accounts head appointed by Woolwich

Woolwich has appointed Sarah Green as the new head of key accounts. Green has worked...

COMMENT: the cost of suspending HIPs

Your clients will see increased costs from the suspension of HIPs, warns Harpal Singh,...

Lack of fairness in financial services

Research from the Consumer Panel has revealed a perception that there has been a...

Phoebus delivers technology to Exact

Phoebus Software is delivering the IT servicing platform for Exact Mortgage Experts. It won the...

Aldermore Commercial pleased with first year’s trading

Aldermore Commercial Mortgages says it is now processing over 500 loan applications per quarter...

Borro.com’s short-term products now available through Promise Solutions

Promise Solutions is to offer Borro.com's range of short-term financial products to intermediaries. Borro.com aims...

Platform offers seven-year fix

Platform has unveiled a new seven-year fixed deal as well as other two, four...

United Trust Bank now on AMPD panel

A bridging lender been added to AMPD's panel. The packaging association has announced that its...

Average property price is £165,314: Land Registry

The Land Registry has recorded an annual price increase of 8.2% in its May...

Want to run AIFA?

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has given further details of the process...

COMMENT: CGT won’t scare off landlords

Budget measures over Capital Gains Tax won't hit buy-to-let, says Guy Garrard, head of...

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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...

Selling isn’t shouting

In many industries, sales still carries the weight of old stereotypes: high pressure, slick scripts and a focus on numbers over nuance. But these...

When service beats software: why hands-on support is the real differentiator in conveyancing

For all the talk about technology reshaping the mortgage and conveyancing world, advisers know that what you often need is some good, old-fashioned support. Not...

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Carter Jonas warns housing reforms ‘far from sufficient’ to tackle crisis

The government must go further than its initial wave of planning reforms if it...

South London dominates list of most popular London boroughs for buyers and renters

South London has emerged as the capital’s most sought-after area for both buyers and...

Household incomes fall nearly 9% in three years as tax and inflation bite

Households are nearly 9% worse off than they were before the pandemic, according to...

Millions of adults trapped at home as 98% priced out of first homes

Almost five million adults in Britain are unable to move out of their parents’...