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Attitudes to new-builds improve

A poll of over 3,000 consumers, conducted by smartnewhomes.com in September, has uncovered softening...

UK firms ill-prepared for return to growth

British businesses, still feeling the effects of recession, are ill-prepared to face a return...

OPINION: are intermediaries fighting back?

Are intermediaries back in fashion, asks Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) Since...

Nationwide rings the changes to mortgage range

Nationwide Building Society is to cut rates tomorrow by up to 0.84%, as well...

Call to abolish Stamp Duty

The government is being urged to abolish Stamp Duty by a property sector coalition. According...

IGM Broker Makeover service launched

Ian Giles, former marketing director at Kensington Mortgages, is offering brokers a 'makeover' service...

Equity release market declines 22% in value

UK equity release industry body SHIP has published latest figures for the third quarter...

Debt management fulfilment service expands

Document collection service Face2Face is expanding its outsourced debt management fulfilment service. Farnborough based Face2Face...

Loan broker rapped by advertising watchdog

Cash Finance Direct Ltd (trading as Horizon Finance) has been found to have breached...

Mersey bridger reports record quarter

Bridging Finance (NW) Ltd has reported a 132% increase in lending volumes for the...

Tiuta ups bridging loan ceiling to £10m

Bridging loan provider Tiuta PLC has extended the maximum loan size on its first...

Divestment scheme for landlords unveiled

Sale and rent back firm Residential Property Solutions (RPS) and The Business Mortgage Company...

Leeds on track with discount offers

Leeds Building Society has launched a novel scheme, where season ticket holders on the...

New commercial lender waits in the wings

An unnamed firm has hired Target to develop a commercial lending platform for it. The...

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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