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January house prices up 4.7% year-on-year

House prices were 4.7% higher in January than at the same time in 2009,...

COMMENT: anger over FSA fee hikes justified

Brokers are rightly aggrieved by FSA fees, argues Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage...

Assurant offers B&C indemnity insurance

Assurant Intermediary will be offering indemnity commission on its range of building & contents...

ANALYSIS: sale and rent back and the broker

Julian Sampson, partner at Wright & Wright, explains how the sale and rent back...

US and Japan set for distressed sale rise

The US and Japan are set to see the biggest rise in distressed sales...

Bibby fears NIC rise

The increase in employers' National Insurance Contributions (NICs) by an extra 0.5% from April...

Y3S increases headcount

Finance broker Y3S has recruited 40 staff over the last six months to deal...

OFT takes action over lead generator

The OFT has imposed requirements on Reset Finance Ltd to ensure that it complies...

RICS’ HomeBuyer Report welcomed

A new scheme to simplify the process of obtaining condition survey information before buying...

Worry expressed over commercial revaluation damage

The Business Centre Association (BCA) has urged the commercial property market to take immediate...

Dec-Jan house prices up 2.1%: Land Registry

The January data from Land Registry's House Price Index shows an annual price change...

SSP second software house in Aviva integration

Aviva has worked with IT company SSP to give 600 extra brokers access to...

Major rebrand for Tenet

Tenet is to rebrand on Monday 1 March while its corporate structure being simplified. Tenet...

Bridgewater forum move to Arundel and Bournemouth

Home reversion provider Bridgewater Equity Release has made Arundel and Bournemouth the next two...

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...

Latest news

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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