Opinions & blogs

Helping with the ‘what next?’

Anyone who has bought a house for the first time, or even on subsequent...

Void periods: important to all buy-to-let investors

The buy-to-let market is continuing to boom thanks to a number of factors contributing to...

Knowledge is a wonderful thing

No mortgage broker is ever going to know about every type of mortgage available...

Advisers have a post-MMR opportunity

The London FSE shows always bring up an interesting number of industry issues to...

Landlords are firmly in the political spotlight

The English language is ever-changing and to signify that we only have to look...

Amazing spaces

The impact of stricter lending criteria combined with people buying their first homes later...

What is reasonable care?

I recently read a consumer complaint in one of the national newspapers that highlighted...

The only game in town?

Anyone working within the equity release sector has always understood the strong underlying demand...

Sorting the conveyancing wheat from the chaff

When it comes to conveyancing there are certain fundamentals that will be craved by...

Helping a client out of a hole

Sometimes, a mortgage application that appears to be on-track for a quick and trouble-free...

Rate rise on the horizon

The news that Britain’s inflation rate turned positive in July has added further fuel...

Pension freedoms haven’t hit equity release

There were many commentators who suggested the new pension freedoms would sound the death...

When you want to sell up

‘It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish...’ goes the song however I...

How landlords might respond to tax relief changes

Now that some of the dust has settled from George Osborne’s Emergency Budget particularly...

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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

First-time buyers spark busiest housing market for three years

First-time buyers are fuelling the busiest year for the housing market since 2022 with...

Together bolsters corporate portfolio team with senior banking hires

Property lender Together has expanded its Corporate Portfolio team as it continues to scale...

Gatehouse Bank launches refinance fee saver purchase plans for UK residents

Gatehouse Bank has introduced a limited edition range of refinance products for UK residents...

Recognise Bank completes £1.825m bridge-to-term deal for London landlord

Recognise Bank has provided a £1.825m bridge-to-term facility to support an experienced London landlord...

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