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Tiny rise in house prices: Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that the seasonally adjusted price index for a...

Ignorance is never bliss

Brokers need to capitalise on consumer ignorance, writes Bob Young, managing director of Capital...

Mydeposits.co.uk up for international award

Tenancy deposit protection provider mydeposits.co.uk has been nominated as a finalist in the Centre...

Slump in new mortgage approvals continues

Mortgage approvals fell to 47,372 last month, down from 48,346 in July, according to...

New and improved rates from TMW

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has made changes to its buy-to-let and prime residential ranges....

OFT makes next move in RBS/Barclays competition case

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has issued a Statement of Objections to Royal...

Tenet leads the way on JO5

Tenet has become the first IFA support services group to achieve prior learning accreditation...

Friends Provident offers protection toolkit for brokers

Friends Provident has introduced a bespoke 'SRT Protection Toolkit' and a new protection site. The...

RICS rolls out valuer registration system following pilot

RICS is to launch its Valuer Registration Scheme on 20 October. This follows a...

Perspective continues acquiring

Perspective Financial Group has acquired IFA firm Warnes Anderton Ltd, as well the client...

EXCLUSIVE: brokers charged over buy-to-let mortgage fraud

Three former brokers of The Money Centre (TMC), once the UK's biggest buy-to-let brokerage,...

OFT threatens debt management firms with loss of licence

The OFT has told 129 debt management firms that they face losing their consumer...

RSA introduces new Mini Fleet product

Insurer RSA has unveils a new product created specifically for owners and operators of...

Paragon returns to buy-to-let lending

Paragon Group has launched a range of buy-to-let mortgage products targeted at professional landlord...

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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