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It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

House prices The Mail on Sunday reported on how much house prices are outstripping rent. House prices in London have risen five times faster than rents in the capital since 2005, according to the paper, while the price of housing has risen at three times the rate of rents in Britain as a whole. The Mail asks whether regulators and politicians should intervene in the property market. FCA vs insurers A number of senior figures from the insurance industry have called on Chancellor George Osborne to sack Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive Martin Wheatley after The Telegrap...

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