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Working through the uncertainty

Much of the focus of the post-EU referendum fallout has focused on consumer confidence,...

It’s a digital world

If there are any die-hard Madonna fans out there, forgive me for paraphrasing but...

Bridging the Brexit gap

Despite the sense of growing uncertainty in the light of Britain’s shock Brexit vote,...

Brexit may mean more of the status quo

If we were in any doubts about how politics shapes our lives then a...

Specialist lending powers ahead

There has been a lot of noise around the impending referendum and how the...

Buy-to-let fundamentals remain strong

If you were looking for the most obvious financial services headline of the year...

Was Osborne right to tackle buy-to-let?

The latest buy-to-let lending figures, issued by the Bank of England, may well give...

Can we maintain conveyancing turnaround levels?

My own impression is that it will take some time for the conveyancing market...

Are lenders behind the FCA’s latest pronouncements?

The flurry of papers from the FCA recently, all concentrating on the post-Mortgage Market...

Lessons in luck

Every once and a while, particularly if you are operating in a management position,...

Understanding semi-commercial growth

The surge in semi-commercial enquiries and why it could be due to a tax...

Flood Re – good, bad or ugly?

First announced in June 2013 and originally planned for last summer but delayed again...

The growth of alternative lending in development finance

There was a time, not that long ago, when the world of development finance...

Providing confidence in conveyancing

At a recent roundtable I hosted on the conveyancing market, what struck me most...

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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...

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IMLA backs FCA roadmap on mortgage rule review

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

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...

AdviceTech ‘giants’ join AdviserSoftware.com AI comparison service

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

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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