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Major improvement in conditions for landlords

Landlords experienced rising rents, rising prices, falling tenant arrears and lower void periods in...

FSA appoints director of retail firms division

The FSA has announced the appointment of Julian Adams as the director of the...

Demand and supply imbalance in Central London

The time from entering the market to exchange of contracts for property in Central...

Significant increase in purchase lead demand

LeadPoint has witnessed a keen rise in demand for mortgage purchase leads. Comparing the number...

Continued rise in house prices

The price of a typical house rose for the fourth consecutive month in August,...

Friends Provident provides new income protection resource

Friends Provident has launched an online income protection toolkit for advisers. The new toolkit, launched...

Mortgage and GI sales and admin system launched

Home Buyer Systems has unveiled a mortgage and GI sales and administration system designed...

Rescue finance proposals to hit SME lending?

The cost of lending to small to medium-sized businesses could rise further because of...

Brokers expect improvement in protection business

Legal & General's Adviser Confidence Index Q3 2009 has reported that the average broker...

Pensioner property values stabilise

Over 65-year old homeowners in England, Scotland and Wales have seen the value of...

ADVICE: being content with your clients’ cover

It could be worth de-bundling your clients' contents cover from their buildings insurance, writes...

Life after death: why packagers still matter

Guy Garrard, head of business development at Tiuta, argues there is still a place...

Forum looks to France for sales skills

Marketing Innovation Forum, the free online marketing service for IFAs and mortgage brokers, has...

More jobs to go at Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group is to cut 200 jobs in its general insurance division by...

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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