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Steve Goodall is managing director of e.surv What a year for the UK’s housing market so far. The latest data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed UK house...

Tim Hague is director of Sagis Variety, they say, is the spice of life. Indeed, variety is the basis of our entire social and economic structure in the UK. Not only...

Tim Hague is director of Sagis The rather wet month of May may well have been notable for the record breaking amounts of water that descended from the heavens, but even...

Tim Hague is managing partner at Sagis You might think that IR35 sounds like a dull detail that affects only a small number of self-employed contractors, but it’s actually a really...

Martin Reynolds is CEO of SimplyBiz Mortgages How were the first four months of the year for you I am never surprised by the resilience of our market, and how advisers...

Martin Reynolds is CEO of SimplyBiz Mortgages This month I want to pick up on a debate that has been discussed many times over the years. Whilst the issue was improved...

Stuart Miller is customer director at Newcastle Building Society Our lives have changed and are being reshaped in ways we couldn’t have imagined – the consequences of which will be with...

David Lownds is head of marketing and business development at Hanley Economic Building Society The lending community continues to strike a balance between reactivity and proactivity as we battle our way...

Stuart Miller is customer director at Newcastle Building Society Times are undoubtedly tough at the moment in so many ways. The current crisis has created new uncertainties about the health of...

Robin Johnson is managing director of Kinleigh, Folkard and Hayward Professional Services The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed that UK average house prices rose 2.2% over...

Craig Calder is director of mortgages at Barclays   At the time of writing, we sit on the cusp of a delayed Budget and something of a cabinet reshuffle. With this in mind,...

Craig Calder is director of mortgages at Barclays   In last month’s article I focused on a selection of points from UK Finance’s ‘The Changing Shape of the Mortgage Market’ report. This...

Ken Hale is head of lending at Harpenden Building Society Brexit, intercontinental trade wars, quantitative easing, house price escalation. Back in 2000, when people were getting anxious about the Millennium Bug,...

Robin Johnson is managing director of Kinleigh, Folkard and Hayward Professional Services London’s property market is often referred to as different from the rest of the UK, something which has...

Stuart Miller is customer director at Newcastle Building Society The Budget is set for 11 March, and we are all waiting to see just how radical Sajid Javid is going to...

Robin Johnson is managing director of Kinleigh, Folkard and Hayward Professional Services It feels as though we have been writing the same column month in, month out for more than...

Peter Izard is business development manager at Investec Private Bank There’s reason to believe that 2020 could prove a turning point for the prime London property market. Research from Savills suggests that...

Paul Adams is sales director at Pepper Money Christmas can be the most wonderful, and expensive, time of the year. So, it is fair to assume that over the coming weeks the...

Peter Izard is business development manager at Investec Private Bank How are you planning to achieve your targets next year Planning can be difficult in an uncertain political environment, but one thing...

Stuart Miller is customer director at Newcastle Building Society As a smaller lender than some, we have both advantages and disadvantages. We don’t have snazzy online algorithms that underwrite borrower applications...

Craig Calder is director of intermediaries at Barclays Mortgages As 2019 comes to a close, it’s not unreasonable to say that it has proved to be a challenging yet eventful year...

Robin Johnson is managing director of Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward Professional Services In a property market that presents as many opportunities and challenges as the current one, I am constantly being...

Stuart Miller is customer director at Newcastle Building Society I recently read a blog by Capital Economics’ group chief economist, Neil Shearing, arguing that globalisation has ‘peaked’. He argued that ‘there is...

Stuart Miller is customer director at Newcastle Building Society Earlier this month we welcomed John Truswell as our new head of intermediary mortgages. John has more than 30 years’ experience in...

Simon Taylor is chief commercial officer at Saffron Building Society Saffron Building Society celebrates its 170th birthday this year. At the start of the year, our chief executive Colin Field talked...

John Phillips is national operations director at Just Mortgages and Spicerhaart The latest UK Finance Mortgage Trends Report revealed that, after propping up the market for some time, remortgaging fell for...

Robin Johnson is managing director of Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward Professional Services All businesses know that establishing strong, long relationships with their clients is good for the bottom line. It doesn’t matter...

Craig Calder is director of intermediaries at Barclays Mortgages We talk a lot in the industry about how the mortgage market has evolved though tech advances, product innovation and criteria enhancements...