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A big year for bridging

More so than other years, I’m really looking forward to putting my feet up...

Creating clarity from a client’s complex financial situation

Releasing equity from an unencumbered property isn’t usually a problem, but when the amount...

Putting the MCD framework into practice in secured loans

At a recent major industry meeting the topic of second charge secured loan regulation...

Covering for Black Friday

As Black Friday arrives, Lee Mooney, commercial director at Paymentshield, discusses the value of additional...

Tackling fraud in the conveyancing process

Reading recently about the conveyancer who was jailed for swindling his clients and the...

Positive times ahead for buy-to-let

Perhaps understandably, given the level of scrutiny the buy-to-let market faces today, the latest...

A new age for second charge lending

The second charge market has recently been making headlines, with estimates revealing how the...

A cautionary tale for brokers

The whole notion of intermediary market share seems to be providing a big talking...

Is it payback time for banks?

I am sure I am not the only one who is horrified to see...

Don’t get your clients into a hole

It’s not often that a conveyancing-related story makes national news, however when I saw...

Why it’s worth going for awards

You will no doubt have seen the adverts beginning to appear from various trade...

Why more brokers should be benefitting from specialist lending

The specialist lending sector is catering to more and more brokers but the question...

Tackling the housing crisis

It would appear that the government is delivering on one of the pledges made...

Don’t ignore SME clients

There are some 5.2 million small businesses in the UK according to the Federation...

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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...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Latest news

Somo cuts bridging rates after Bank of England move

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

Bridging finance momentum shows up in Knowledge Bank broker search data

Broker search behaviour on Knowledge Bank suggests bridging finance is playing an increasingly central...

The Cambridge donates festive Giving Tree collections to local charities

The Cambridge Building Society has donated hundreds of essential items to local charities after...

Rising inheritance tax receipts sharpen focus on later life planning

Inheritance tax receipts have climbed to £5.8 billion in the first eight months of...

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