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SimplyBiz supports new AIFA Diploma

SimplyBiz, the compliance and business support company, has given its backing to the new...

Abbey in loyalty reward initiative

Abbey for Intermediaries (AfI) has launched a 'Loyal Mover' proposition, with the introduction of...

Vantis BRS appoints insolvency practitioner

Vantis Business Recovery Services (BRS), a division of Vantis, the UK accounting, tax and...

HIP code amended to accommodate ‘exchange ready’ pack

The Home Information Pack (HIP) Code has been changed to recognise 'exchange ready packs'. AHIPP,...

ANALYSIS: Does MPPI offer value?

Selling MPPI is challenging but necessary, argues Kevin Paterson, sales and marketing director, Assurant...

BestAdvice.net service announcement

The BestAdvice.net website will be offline from 5pm Friday 16 April to approximately 7am...

L&G Mortgage Club unveils desktop mortgage tool

Legal & General Mortgage Club has launched a desktop mortgage tool, which alerts its...

FSA fines London IFA £24,500

The FSA has fined Robin Bradford (Life and Pension Consultants) Ltd, a London based...

3mc to offer ‘specialist prime’ for FTBs

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New customer website for Northern Rock

Northern Rock plc has launched a new &lta href=&quothttp://www.northernrock.co.uk/mortgages/&quot&gtconsumer-facing website&lt/a&gt. It offers guides for homebuyers,...

First direct sweetens its five-year deal

First direct has reduced the rate of its five-year fixed rate repayment mortgage from...

Rents rise while arrears fall

It has been claimed that a "resurgent"" buy-to-let market is delivering improved returns as...

Sales up at estate agents

The number of house-hunters registered per estate agent branch increased from 258 in February...

Intelligent Office for IN Partnership

National IFA network IN Partnership has chosen to adopt IntelliFlo's Intelligent Office solution to...

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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...