Property industry loses one of its stars

Clive Emson MBE, property auctioneer and star of Homes under the Hammer has died. The flamboyant entrepreneur whose Kent-based family auction business found national fame through the popular property TV programme, passed peaceful last Wednesday, aged 79. Clive Emson Land and Property Auctioneers, covered Kent to Cornwall and is an award-winning business, built by Clive and his family, notably his…

Homeowners using equity release to gift to family

Over one in five (22 per cent) equity release applications were being used for gifting in the first half of the year, research from Canada Life has revealed.The research, which surveyed prospective home finance customers, found this represented a 9 percentage point increase on the 13 per cent of applications that cited the same reason in H1 2024.This finding comes…

Set out your investment goals before choosing an online platform

Thirty-odd years ago, when I first entered the world of financial services, investment platforms were very much in their infancy. According to some definitions, they didn’t even exist. Today millions of individuals in the UK invest online. Some do so through platforms that allow them to work alongside their financial advisers, others through platforms that enable them to make their own…

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