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Lending into retirement: how the specialist market is taking the lead

As a nation we are working and living for longer and, as a result,...

Where to go to get EU insight?

In the lead up to Leave/Remain EU Referendum how many times will we hear...

Lessons learned from the Stamp Duty deadline

Now that we have a little bit of distance between us and last month’s...

Age is nothing but a number… or is it?

That’s what they say, and many people live by it and apply it to...

Why bridging will continue to excel in post-MCD world

Bridging finance has continued to develop and grow over the last few years and...

Why you should be on Twitter

On the day that I write this it’s the tenth anniversary of the launch of...

IPT – call it what it is, a tax on consumers

It came as no surprise to the insurance industry that the Chancellor George Osborne...

What was missing from the Budget

This article, as they say in the world of TV, is a two-parter. In...

20% annual rise in gross purchase advances

The Bank of England says the proportion of lending for house purchase in the...

Commercial finance, tax hikes and corporate structures

There has been much debate in the industry around whether or not setting up...

MCD – a new dawn for secured loan lenders

Equifinance has just funded our first fully MCD-compliant loan. To get to this point...

Using a bridge for an HMO investment

HMO developments can yield some fantastic returns upon investment and it is little surprise...

We’re fast approaching ‘squeaky bum time’

When it comes to housing transactions, each will have their own specific deadline when...

2016: Challenges, changes and opportunities for brokers

To quote a heavily used cliché from Alexander Graham Bell: “When one door closes,...

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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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