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House prices fell last month, say surveyors

A greater number of surveyors reported a fall than a rise in house prices...

EXCLUSIVE: Conveyancing Alliance makes significant cuts to transactional fees

Conveyancing Alliance Ltd is making price reductions to its transactional conveyancing fees, with up...

NatWest IS adds new products and cuts rates

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is launching three new mortgages tomorrow as well as cutting the...

Advisers offered income stream from repo alternative

Residential property firm Property Portfolio Rescue (PPR) has unveiled a 'Stop the Repossession' service...

Trio join Charlbury arrears system

Three legal firms have signed-up to be integrated to The Arrears Management System launched...

Warning sounded over overseas property tax proposals

Recent government proposals on changes to the tax rules on furnished holiday lets (FHL)...

Co-op/Britannia sees rise in applications

The Co-operative Bank and Britannia have seen a 31% increase in mortgage applications in...

AEGON UK appoints HR chief

AEGON UK has announced the appointment of Gill Scott as HR director. She was...

The Leeds donates £11k to cancer charity

The Leeds Building Society has donated £11,000 to Marie Curie Cancer Care. Each year...

RBS profits rise to £1.14bn

Royal Bank of Scotland has reported a large rise in pre-tax profits, from £15...

Lettings agents better at avoiding void periods: DPS

The Deposit Protection Service (DPS), the custodial tenancy deposit protection scheme accredited by the...

NLA creates new external relations post

The head of communications at the National Landlords Association (NLA), Simon Gordon, has been...

Tenet sounds PI warning

Adviser support group Tenet has raised concerns over professional indemnity (PI) rates. Tenet says insurance...

Debt collection business has credit licence application rejected

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) turned down an application for a consumer credit...

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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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