Regulation

FCA bans pair for “lack of integrity”

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Mark Kelly and Patrick Gray from working...

Tenet slams FCA’s stance over FSCS

Tenet has criticised the FCA’s refusal to consider introducing a product-based premium as a means of...

Solution proposed to ‘holistic’ debate

The Society of Mortgage Professionals says it is confident that the Financial Conduct Authority's...

TenetSelect to hold free DA seminars

TenetSelect is holding a series of free assessing suitability seminars throughout June, aimed at...

Over 60% of tenants in the dark over protection

UK letting agents hold over £2.7 billion of landlord and tenants’ money but, according...

Committee questions further P2P regulation

Andrew Tyrie MP, chairman of the parliamentary Treasury Committee, has written to Tracey McDermott,...

Large majority of brokers to deal with second charges

84% of brokers surveyed by Legal & General Mortgage Club plan to include second...

Are lenders behind the FCA’s latest pronouncements?

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

Former Keydata compliance officer banned

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Peter Johnson, former compliance officer of Keydata...

AMI concerned by FCA’s competition stance

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has revealed its its disappointment by the FCA's...

CML pleased by FCA’s competition statement

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has responded to the Financial Conduct Authority's competition...

FCA to hold mortgage market competition study

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to undertake a targeted market study focused on...

Advisers concerned over long-term BTL prospects

There has been a small rise in the volume of buy-to-let business being written...

Keystone to provide split stress tests

On 14 June Keystone Property Finance will introduce separate stress tests for individual and...

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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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