Sarah Davidson's Blog
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Why are interest-only mortgages so bad for someone living in a house when you could compare it to a buy-to-let loan with a long term tenant?
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Charles Haresnape's Blog
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lenders are not falling over themselves to develop products for hard-pressed first-time buyers
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Martin Reynolds's Blog
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A key litmus test in whether you are succeeding in putting service first on a consistent basis is by looking at your last two months’ appointments
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Tony Ward's Blog
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The government, Bank of England and FSA are hugely worried that unless we take these measures we are vastly exposed to a potential second banking crisis
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Nigel Payne's Blog
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So the banks lost their case on PPI mis-selling and are now setting aside billions of pounds for potential claims.
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Phil Jeynes's Blog
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Picture the scene: your partner comes home from the doctor and tells you that he/she has been diagnosed with cancer.
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Gemma Harle's Blog
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The fall out of payment protection insurance continues to give the business of protection a bad name.
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Rob Lankey's Blog
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Anybody who's bought a camera, TV or computer has inevitably asked themselves if they should buy now, or wait a few weeks until the latest model comes out and/or the price drops.
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Gavin Diamond's Blog
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One interesting aspect of the current bridging market is that the arrangement all lenders had become accustomed to has been turned on its head.
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Peter Welch's Blog
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Essentially reversions are viewed as something of a Cinderella product (before she goes to the ball) and are taken to be not as important as the lifetime mortgage stepsister.
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Bob Hunt's Blog
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The regulator is adamant that advisers have to continually improve themselves
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Frank Eve's Blog
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The Financial Services Authority is assisting in this change of behaviour by starting a new broker assessment program that will see every mortgage advisory firm assessed by the FSA.
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Yuan Phoon's Blog
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Industry figures debated various issues in the UK property market in Central London at the Great housing market debate.
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Sean Oldfield's Blog
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Would homeowners sit tight as prices were falling and wait until they could recoup their outlay?
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Rob Barnard 's Blog
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what business are you intermediaries in? Are you actually in the business of broking finance or does your profession have a higher purpose?
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Richard Cleminson's Blog
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Landlords who have them are operating in a niche but lucrative market.
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Brian Murphy's Blog
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NewBuy needs more lenders to take advantage of the reduced risk to get involved
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David Gilman's Blog
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Should there be a problem with the conveyance there is a risk that the whole deal could fall through.
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Edmund Tirbutt's Blog
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It’s about time others started going back to the drawing board and putting themselves in the consumer’s shoes and asking what would really captivate them.
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Alison Beeston's Blog
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t’s fair to say that ‘the Fourth Estate’, otherwise known as the press, has been the subject of a fair amount of scrutiny recently.
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Bob Young's Blog
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The bridging market, if you believe the noise, has been a strong performer and the buy-to-let arena has certainly seen a great deal of activity in the past 12 months.
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Julian Wells's Blog
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One of the advantages that you have, as a mortgage broker, over larger financial institutions, is that you’re close to your customers and are therefore able to see issues from their point of view.
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Kevin Paterson's Blog
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Let me paint a picture. Payday lending is a £2bn industry in the UK today. These lenders make unsecured loans, typically in amounts less than £500 though some can go as high as £1500. There are virtually no credit or background checks involved, so loans are made to just about anyone who walks in the door.
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Hugh Wade-Jones's Blog
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...high net-worth borrowers remain unbowed by the Office of National Statistics figures and I would expect this to remain the case due to a number of supporting factors.
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Inblognito's Blog
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All Payment Protection Insurance claims firms should be shut down
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James Sherwood-Rogers's Blog
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As from 30 June 2013 the “Statement of Principles” agreement between government and the Association of British Insurers is set to expire leaving a rather undefined future for flood insurance for UK homeowners.
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