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Rental demand to increase with stamp duty threshold change

Landlords believe the change to the stamp duty threshold in 2025 will encourage tenants...

Friday 13th Horror: GW Legal gets closed down by regulator and won’t open again

Conveyancing firm GW Legal was shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on...

Private equity firm takes minority stake in United Trust Bank

United Trust Bank (UTB) has revealed that an agreement has been reached between its...

Brick by Brick: Rightmove predicts 2025 housing market to build on optimism

Rightmove is predicting a 4% rise in national average asking prices for 2025 –...

Opportunities still aplenty in BTL market

58% of brokers operating in the buy-to-let sector have more landlord clients who want...

Younger generations at ease with discussing finances

Younger people are significantly more open about discussing financial matters than older generations, according...

Black & White Bridging reaches 1,000 new home milestone

Black & White Bridging has calculated that it has supported the creation of 1,000...

Mortgage broker Martin Stewart steps into the literary world with first book

Martin Stewart, renowned mortgage broker and Founder of London Money, is stepping into the...

Zoopla forecasts buoyant housing market for 2025

The UK housing market is set to experience a significant rebound in 2025, with...

Coreco acquired by OneDome in seven figure deal

Coreco has been snapped up by OneDome in a seven-figure deal that sees the...

The Dudley launches new residential, expat and BTL products

Dudley Building Society has unveiled a new range of two-year fixed rate mortgage deals. Designed...

AMI rebrands Mortgage Climate Action Group

The Mortgage Climate Action Group (MCAG) has been rebranded to the Green Mortgage Advice...

Landbay unveils new Limited Edition remortgage products

Landbay has bolstered its product proposition with the launch of a new limited edition...

Simply Conveyancing shuts Peterborough office, citing strategic shift, amid pre-Christmas redundancies

Simply Conveyancing has announced the closure of its Peterborough office, with over half of...
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We must not accept our snail’s pace home buying system

Buying a house in this country can be ridiculously slow, as a handful of recent studies have highlighted. Research from the House Buyer Bureau...

Deferment and capitalisation rates: small percentages, large consequences

The Government is currently consulting on Leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates to determine what deferment and capitalisation rates should be prescribed under the Leasehold and...

Your clients can’t tell which firm they’re dealing with

Two clients walk into your firm in the same week. One of them is a referral from a mate of yours. Complicated case, self-employed, bit...

It’s time to look at retention

As the summer winds down and the back-to-school routine kicks back in, I urge the industry to turn its attention to something just as...

Landlords are buying – and advisers should take note

There has been no shortage of commentary over recent years suggesting landlords are heading for the exit, buy-to-let apparently no longer works and the...

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