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Simon Read: When do you actually advise your clients?

I don’t know about you, but I was alarmed when Boris Johnson became Prime...

Where next for the Baby Boomers?

The FCA recently published a discussion paper on the different issues being faced by...

Opportunities from your landlord clients

In the summertime when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and...

Tackling the problems in the insolvency sector head on

In the early-to-mid-2000s, there was a large expansion of credit which coincided with a...

We need the right balance for later life lending success

Given the demographical needs of the UK population, it’s hardly surprising that later life...

Get the right support to service demand

In the mortgage market we must always make time to consider emerging risks, such...

Fasten your seatbelts…

So, there we have it. The worst kept secret in British politics is now...

Ask questions of your conveyancing partner

Access to most forms of information are now only a click, maybe two, away....

What could a Johnson premiership mean for the housing market?

You get the sense that – however long the Boris Johnson Premiership might last...

When one lender isn’t enough

Where do you turn when your client wants to refinance a large portfolio? Sometimes,...

Buy-to-let may just have to ‘make do and mend’

In an uncertain world, it’s difficult to get any sort of handle on how...

Will Britons will have to work 10 years longer?

British men have not saved enough to pay for 10.3 years of their retirement....

Dealing with the realities of longer-term fixed rates

I’ve written before about the constant changes in the mortgage and housing markets; some...
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“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

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...

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