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Welcome Car Finance to shut

Cattles is to close its direct distribution car retailer, Welcome Car Finance. The board told...

Cattles’ shares suspended

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has temporarily suspended Cattles' securities from the Official List...

Cattles shares slump after accountancy error warning

Embattled sub-prime lender Cattles has admitted that there has been a breakdown in internal...

Cattles suspends new lending at Welcome

Cattles has "temporarily" suspending lending to new customers in Welcome Finance with immediate effect....

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Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

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Rents keep rising as house price growth eases towards year end

Average UK monthly private rents rose by 4.4% in the 12 months to November...

Stonebridge data points to resilient mortgage market as rates ease

Stonebridge, one of the UK’s largest mortgage networks, has published its latest Mortgage Market...

The Buckinghamshire brings back two-year fixed expat buy-to-let deal

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reintroduced a fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage aimed at expat landlords...

Scottish home energy efficiency market could unlock billions in private capital, report finds

A new report commissioned by the Green Finance Institute (GFI) and funded by the...

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