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Why your conveyancing advice matters

I think it’s fair to say that when it comes to clients and their...

Making the most of the ‘new normal’

For a sector that has been through a significant amount of change over the...

Meeting the needs of the professional landlord 

The property investment landscape had undoubtably changed over the last couple of years. The...

Focus on: asset-based lending

If you work with enough high net worth clients, you will know that there...

New thinking needed to help the young

There’s no doubting that when it comes to thinking outside the box, the recent...

Having the time to be a better adviser

If I ask a roomful of advisers what takes up the majority of their...

50 ways to draw your pension

Having heard Paul Simon’s announcement that he was going to stop performing, I thought...

How to avoid getting tangled up in knots

I was interested to read that the Loughborough Building Society has decided to do...

Handling the twist and turns of the market

Deciphering the current state of the UK mortgage market could take the equivalent of...

Second charge market confidence shouldn’t be dented in Q2

It’s safe to say that the first quarter of 2018 has not been the...

Open Banking success is not a certainty

There’s no doubting that discussions around ‘fintech’ and what it might open up for...

Second charge is not rocket science

The death of Stephen Hawking came as a surprise like it does with deaths...

Why things are getting worse for first-time buyers

First-time buyers might often wonder what the market is doing on any given week,...

Criteria checking: trying to reach the right destination

There are many people now driving who have never looked at a paper map...
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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...

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...

Latest news

Regulation

IMLA backs FCA roadmap on mortgage rule review

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has described the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) Feedback...
Analysis

Borrowers moved early as rate cut expectations built, Twenty7tec data shows

Mortgage search activity reached its highest level of the month on 9 December, nine...
Technology

AdviceTech ‘giants’ join AdviserSoftware.com AI comparison service

Three of the UK’s most widely used adviser technology systems – Dynamic Planner, FE...
Bridging

Somo cuts bridging rates after Bank of England move

Somo has moved quickly to cut rates across its bridging range following the Bank...

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