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  • April 2008
    • 30-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The influx of migrants into the UK construction industry has been "beneficial" to the "effective operation" of the...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. New figures which show a decline in the number of mortgages approved for house purchase in the UK...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. House prices across the UK have fallen for the first time in over 12 years, according to new...
    • 29-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has been angered by government moves to increase the national minimum wage...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. With the mayoral elections for London looming, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has urged the successful candidate...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Private bank accounts - aimed at small businesses and tradesmen - should be taken out for the "whole...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The UK's buy-to-let mortgage sector should continue to "perform well" during 2008, despite the withdrawal of many mortgage...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The annual rate of house price growth in England and Wales has slowed for a seventh consecutive month,...
    • 28-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Entrepreneurs worried about the onset of an economic downturn have been advised to think outside, inside and even...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Companies concerned by the business finance outlook in the UK have been advised not to judge national sectors...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Homeowners and professional landlords who are hard-pressed financially could be entitled to a break in their monthly mortgage...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Some of the UK's largest mortgage lenders have increased the interest rates that they charge on home loans...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The introduction of flexible tenure schemes in to the UK property market could help ease the affordability problems...
    • 25-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. An increasing number of construction firms based in the north-east will merge their operations, according to one expert....
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Police in Kent are to pool more resources into tackling the problem of theft from building sites. Loss...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The introduction of a large scale professional rental system in the UK would help first-time buyers who are...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Just two per cent of landlords plan on selling their properties to take advantage of new more favourable...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. A new way for tenants to start saving in order to buy their own home has been proposed...
    • 24-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Tradesmen in the building industry can take pride in the results of a new survey, which revealed that...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Many workers in all sectors of industry are failing to understand that their pensions may not be enough...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Professional landlords will continue to buy properties across the UK, despite the current uncertainty in the housing market,...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Despite more businesses and tradesmen becoming concerned with the effects of climate change, not enough companies are putting...
    • 23-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. In what may spell good news for buy-to-let mortgage holders, the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. With residential and buy-to-let mortgage lending a constant feature of the news, the chancellor of the exchequer and...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The buy-to-let mortgage market looks set to remain in rude health, the results of a survey by the...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The effects of the credit crunch are continuing to bite the UK's largest banks, with new figures showing...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The development of the internet and other technologies means that small businesses do not have to be based...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Small businesses around the UK have a vital role to play in the country's fight against climate change...
    • 22-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Retailers occupying the middle area of the market are expected to be the most vulnerable traders during the...
    • No sector in the retail industry is free from the effects of the credit crunch, The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has claimed. "Almost every sector" of retail is currently feeling the squeeze, the consortium observed, from food to DIY, electrical...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Getting a strong online presence early in the lifetime of a business can provide it with a real...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Local councils could do a lot more to help small businesses in their area of control survive and...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. A pressure group which supports the needs of small businesses has called for more financial help from the...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Some of the UK's largest mortgage lenders are to meet with chancellor Alistair Darling and housing minister Caroline...
    • 21-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The winners of the Queen's Awards for Enterprise have been named. Recognising outstanding achievement among businesses in the...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. More small to medium-sized enterprises need to report crimes committed against them, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Buy-to-let mortgage loans and other forms of borrowing could become more accessible following an announcement from the Bank...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The introduction of the tenancy deposit scheme last April has been a "success" and has led to an...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Having a good reputation throughout the local area is a key requirement for tradesmen to get business, according...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Employees who choose to work from home tend to get an "improved" balance between their work and their...
    • 18-04-2008
      News for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Credit referencing agency Graydon UK today called upon the Government to do more to support small businesses in protecting their...
    • On 17 April the OFT launched proceedings against 112 construction companies alleging that they had been involved in bid rigging in breach of Competition Law. The companies concerned range from multi-billion pound national companies to SME's and in the worst...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has predicted that the amount of money loaned through residential and buy-to-let...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. One way to cut the overheads of starting a new business is to utilise an online marketing policy,...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Bringing in flexible working arrangements that allow staff to work from home could be as beneficial to employers...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Tradesmen who do not have the correct builders insurance could be turned away from potential work in favour...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The buy-to-let mortgage market across the UK is set to thrive over the coming months, despite the current...
    • 17-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Multinational firm IBM has reported a significant increase in profits. The company has confirmed that, in spite of...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Auction site eBay has reported a rise in profits, it has emerged. With profits enhanced by the weakness...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The price of oil has neared a new high during trading in Asia, it has emerged. According to...
    • 16-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. A seminar detailing the dangers of slips, trips and falls has been announced by the Health and Safety...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Inflation levels have risen across the Eurozone, it has emerged. Official statistics have revealed an increase in the...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning following the death of a welder during an...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed a fall in the country's unemployment levels. According to...
    • 15-04-2008
      News for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. A PR agency has taken the unprecedented move of offering free public relations advice to small and growing businesses. 10...
    • News for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. According to online shopping discount site MyVoucherCodes, the internet is reaching new highs in terms of online shoppers in comparison...
    • 14-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Shares have fallen in Asian markets during trading today. According to reports, stocks in Asia have fallen during...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning in relation to work conducted with dangerous...
    • 10-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) today reduced interest rates to 5 percent from 5.25. In...
    • 09-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has issued a new call to make action against business-targeted crime a...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. A financial institution in the UK has announced a number of job cuts. Confirmed by Capital One earlier...
    • 08-04-2008
      News for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. According to Business Link, 29 out of 33 London boroughs are experiencing a growth in the number of new businesses,...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The last remaining UK lender to offer 100 per cent mortgages will withdraw them from the market tomorrow....
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called for the adoption of a new approach on the issue...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The driver of a forklift truck in Herefordshire has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE),...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed the introduction of regulations governing workplace noise within the entertainment...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has confirmed details of the growth of internet advertising. According to the findings...
    • 07-04-2008
      News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. There is a significant chance that interest rates will be cut when the Bank of England's monetary policy...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Khan, has called for global state-level intervention as a...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning to businesses in Scotland. The organisation has called...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. UK prime minister Gordon Brown has confirmed that the world is currently facing a financial crisis of global...
    • News by Adfero for Simply Business - independent providers of public liability insurance, business finance, landlord insurance, buy-to-let mortgages & commercial mortgages. New research has revealed a preference for long-term fixed-rate mortgage products, it has emerged. Accor