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Global confidence increase in commercial property: RICS

RICS says its latest Global Property Survey is noticeably more upbeat than the second...

Lending Standards Board remit unveiled

A new lending code is coming into force on 1 November. Also, independent body, Lending...

New title insurance provider comes to market

Paul Beresford and George Stark have teamed up with CLS Ltd to launch CLS...

AfI and A&L cut rates again

Abbey for Intermediaries and Alliance & Leicester Intermediary Sales has made further cuts on...

Complete launches financial planning arm

Complete Mortgage and Loan Services has launched a service offering mortgage brokers access to...

Land banking scam directors disqualified for 12 years

Two Swiss-based company directors who deceived UK investors into paying more than £5 million...

Reduction in number of reluctant landlords

The number of reluctant landlords has dropped for the third consecutive quarter, according to...

PPI behind rise in GI and protection complaints

The overall level of complaints concerning FSA-registered firms has increased by 2% to 1.51...

Claims management firm rapped by ad watchdog

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against a text advert from a claims...

ANALYSIS: Signs of green shoots in commercial property

Guy Garrard, head of business development at Tiuta, looks at the state of the...

OPINION: bleak future for one man band conveyancers

Eddie Goldsmith, senior partner at Goldsmith Williams, argues the case for large conveyancers The newly...

BoE: mixed mortgage picture continues

There were 56,215 loan approvals for house purchase in September, according to the Bank...

GMAC-RFC hit by large FSA fine

GMAC-RFC has been fined £2.8 million by the FSA for unfair treatment of customers...

Protection IFAs only slightly more confident than before

Legal & General's fourth report in a quarterly series looking at IFA confidence levels...

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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