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ANALYSIS: should commercial mortgages be regulated?

Stephen Johnson, sales and marketing director, Commercial First, discusses the pros and cons for...

ABI guide gets thumbs-up from Just Retirement

Just Retirement has welcomed publication of the revised ABI Good Practice Guidance: Improving customers'...

Five land banking firms to be wound up

Petitions have been present in the High Court by the Secretary of State for...

OFT consults on credit licence costs

The OFT has launched a consultation on moving towards a new approach to the...

Decline in first-time buyers

The proportion of first-time buyers looking to acquire property has reached its lowest level...

New BTLs from the Manchester

Manchester Building Society (MBS) has launch two buy-to-let products. They are both three-year fixed rate...

Fixed rates continue to lose popularity

The popularity of fixed rate mortgages continued to wane in November, with only 21.3%...

Yorkshire offers mortgage for Stamp Duty rise

Yorkshire Building Society has brought out a new fixed rate mortgage which it says...

Financial adviser banned for dishonesty

The FSA has fined the director of a West Midlands financial adviser firm £75,000...

Business boost for Conveyancing Alliance

Conveyancing Alliance Ltd has reported an increase in its month-on-month remortgage activity in November The...

IFA partners with Assurant Intermediary

IFA business Hurst Independent Financial Services is now giving its HomeBuy Direct Scheme (HBD)...

Cattles faces winding-up action

At a general meeting convened yesterday to consider its serious loss of capital, troubled...

The Key integrates with 1st – The Exchange for Sesame

The Key, Mortgage Brain's point-of-sale and compliance solution, has integrated with 1st - The...

Goldsmith Williams extends fee-free offering

Goldsmith Williams is to continue to offer its fee-free conveyancing deal in 2010. The deal,...

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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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