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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

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

Latest news

UK buyers reluctant to compromise despite affordability pressures

UK homebuyers remain committed to purchasing a property but are less willing than buyers...

Keystone trims buy-to-let fixed rates by up to 15bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced pricing across a number of its buy-to-let mortgage ranges,...

Saffron expands expat landlord range and eases residential income criteria

Saffron for Intermediaries has broadened its specialist mortgage criteria with new expat HMO products...

Gable zero-deposit mortgages added to Twenty7tec sourcing platform

Twenty7tec has added Gable Mortgages to its RESEARCH platform, making the lender's zero-deposit residential...

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