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Industry legend retires after 10 years at the helm of successful specialist lender

Serial entrepreneur and industry legend Trevor Pothecary is hanging up his spurs after 10...

Access Financial Services hires later life chief

Access Financial Services has appointed Adrian Brewer to the new position of head of...

Loughborough BS joins Paradigm lender panel

Paradigm has announced the addition of Loughborough Building Society to its lender panel. Member firms...

New report urges use of finance mechanism to fund UK retrofitting

The Green Finance Institute (GFI) has published a major new report in partnership with...

E.surv acquires house price data analytics firm

Valuations business, e.surv Chartered Surveyors, has acquired the intellectual property and brand of Acadata,...

London Credit to cut rates this week

Short-term lender, London Credit, is to introduce new product rates on Friday, 8 November. It...

Q3 rise in home condition survey instructions

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has reported a 5.4% uplift in the number of homebuyers...

Recognise secures new investment as chair and CEO step down

Recognise Bank has secured £25m in new capital from its majority shareholder, bringing the...

National Friendly drastically reduces income protection application times

National Friendly has reduced and simplified the questions on its Income Protection (IP) applications....

Over one in five first-time buyers paying Stamp Duty

22% of all first-time buyers have paid stamp duty so far this year, despite...

Stamp Duty holiday end to boost Q1 2025 transactions

Nationwide Building Society has examined what impact the expiry of the stamp duty holiday...

Hinckley & Rugby BS introduces remortgage service with PEXA

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has partnered with PEXA to speed up its remortgage...

Nationwide reports slowdown in annual house price growth

Annual house price growth slowed in October, down to 2.4% from 3.2% in the...

HMRC reports slight monthly rise in residential transactions

HMRC's seasonally adjusted residential transactions for September 2024 show a marginal month-on-month increase for...
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Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

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Financial services firms sign skills pact ahead of Chancellor’s Mansion House speech

More than 20 financial services organisations have signed a new agreement with government aimed...
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