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Home improvements fuel equity release

Equity release sales reached £613.32 million in nine months, according to the latest Key...

Buy-to-let improvement felt by brokers

43% of brokers reported an improvement in the availability of buy-to-let mortgages during the...

New MD for Countrywide’s new build division

James Poynor has been appointed as the new managing director of new homes agent...

Let tenants work from home: Shapps

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has called for councils and housing associations to allow their...

32% relying on home for retirement income

Among people aged 34-44, 42% want to stay in their own house when they...

Equity release advisers need government support: SHIP

91% of advisers claim a lack of clear and consistent government information is one...

Paul Brett joins Borro

Paul Brett, founder of the Freehold Packager Association, has joined Borro as business development...

Santander begins A&L branch rebrand

Santander is to rename 300 Alliance & Leicester branches by the end of November...

Principality expands branch network

Principality has revealed plans to open its 52nd Principality branch at 1 Monnow Street...

Sesame announces symposium details

Sesame has published details of the industry speakers that will appear at its fourth...

Over the moon with the mortgage market?

It's a game of two halves, argues Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage Alliance...

Openwork adds Largemortgageloans.com to panel

Largemortgageloans.com, the specialist large loans broker, is to join Openwork's lender panel. The move, which...

House prices to fall into 2011: Hometrack

Hometrack has reported a fall in house price in October of 0.9%, the fourth...

Hardship from housing benefit cuts for half of renters

49% of those in private rented housing and 66% in social housing would face...

COMMENT

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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