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We need greater clarity around MMR requirements

Last month I attended the ‘Great Retirement Money Debate’ which took place in London...

Trade shows confirm positive industry feeling

The Spring exhibition season is over – at least the major all-encompassing ones –...

A hidden cost for foreign property buyers

London is, without doubt, the property investment capital of the world. In fact, according to...

The trillion pound market

The boom in the buy-to-let industry shows no sign of bust. The latest snapshot of...

Property development opportunities in central London

Central London holds a wealth of investment opportunity for property developers who are seeking...

Why Level 4 could become a minimum

For most practitioners in our sector May and June tend to be months to...

HMOs: an evolving asset class

Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) are continuing to receive attention in the media thanks...

Building homes has to be the government’s priority

You might not think it possible but there will probably be more words written...

Once in a lifetime change in housing market?

The mood (unsurprisingly) was almost overwhelmingly positive at the recent post-Election Great Housing Debate...

The risk of sharing too much

With the summer fast approaching, thoughts turn to holidays in the sun and getting...

Managing goals and ambitions

Hard-work and perseverance can get you a long way in life. I was certainly...

Beyond good and evil

Make no bones about it this is an incredibly important week for the private...

Why the PR work needs to continue

In most walks of life and business, perception is everything. I was reminded of...

Beating the bull … subject to regulatory approval of course

The insurance industry is renowned for its use of jargon. Despite great efforts made...

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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...

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Phoebus applies agile thinking to build people-first culture

Software specialist Phoebus is applying principles more commonly associated with software development to its...

Rightmove forecasts modest house price rise in 2026

House prices are expected to rise modestly in 2026, with asking prices forecast to...

Landlord exits set to continue as private rental pressures mount

Approximately 93,000 buy-to-let landlords exited the market during 2025, according to estimates from property...

Younger landlords lead shift towards limited company buy-to-let ownership

The growth in limited company ownership of buy-to-let property has been driven largely by...

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