Market Watch: Please, consult the industry
It seems likely that the Budget will be housing heavy, and the…
Bridging Watch: Professionalism is all
Despite wider uncertainty, the growing reach and reputation of our sector combine…
Buy-to-Let Watch: Grab 2024 with both hands
For clients who held out last year in the hope of significant…
News Analysis: What’s in a professional title?
While some say this is mere semantics, others believe that banning the…
Market Watch: A year to adapt and innovate
After the switchback hell ride of last year, 2024 has kicked off…
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Commercial Watch: We’re a different beast
Why do commercial mortgage rates remain stubbornly high? A key reason is…
Buy-to-Let Watch: Superheroes, wolves and the landlord
The modern landlord’s contribution towards the wider economy, and the social housing…
Tech Watch: Finding quality that lasts
A good purchase decision is not about the cheapest solution but about…
Housing Watch: Urgent call for national planning and reform
The housebuilding industry has endured a relentless storm, but the planning system,…
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Market Watch: 2023: A haze of bewilderment
If last year was an ‘annus horribilis’, as I wrote then, then…
Buy-to-Let Watch: Worth the effort? HNW loans
Advisers of HNW applicants must be well versed in offshore income and…
Insurance Watch: Comprehensive solutions
In an era marked by escalating living costs, clients seek more than…
Bridging Watch: How quick is quick?
Lenders and brokers alike need to ask themselves: what can I do…
Revolutionising remortgages
Are we seeing the start of a demand bubble for remortgages? If…
Second Charge Watch: Consolidated effort
Engage with clients in good time to judge if they may benefit…
Tech Watch: Machine Learning – the Mortgage Maverick
Machine learning is far from being the ‘poor relation’ of AI and…
Commercial Watch: Armageddon or anticlimax?
In the face of headlines about a ‘mortgage meltdown’, why does the…
Housing Watch: Let’s share a proven scheme
In the void left by Help to Buy there has been extra…
Buy-to-let Watch: Autumn heralds better landscape for landlords
There are no looming MEES changes, better rental yields are on offer…
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Market Watch: Who knows what’s going on?
Will house prices and mortgage rates continue to fall? Will there be…
Comment: Having to barter over the Charter
The Mortgage Charter brings a new landscape of intervention in what was…
Bridging Watch: No limit to where we can help
Bridging enables downsizers to separate the process of selling their current property…
Insurance Watch: Protecting the playmaker
‘Protection’ sounds like a gangster racket but it makes sense in that it’s…
Second Charge Watch: An unfair image problem
A second charge is regulated in the same way as a mortgage…
Buy-to-Let Watch: The limbo before the rush
There’s a fine line between a restful market and one that’s concerningly…
Market Watch: A few promising signs
Whether we are at the stage of there being some calm in…
Commercial Watch: Hive of activity
Despite all the difficulties commercial brokers are facing when placing deals, I…
