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Goldsmith Williams has blasted Bridging Introducer columnist Steve McColl for accusing solicitors of voicing “ill-thought through” opinions on bridging transactions.
The Financial Services Authority has today published a report that shows most sale and rent back transactions were either unaffordable or unsuitable and never should have been sold.
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As the consultation on bankruptcy reforms closes this week, EuroDebt Financial Services has urged the Government to cut the cost and time involved in declaring bankruptcy.
Cambridge Building Society has appointed Sesame Bankhall Valuation Services as its exclusive panel manager for valuations.
The Charlbury Group has announced that following a three month pilot its AMS: Field Agent system will now be launched to the entire mortgage market.
Precise Mortgages has launched joint legal representation for clients taking bridging loans, cutting legal fees for the borrower from a market average of £1,500 to just £599 +VAT.
The UK economy will contract by just 0.1% this year but will grow by 2.3% in 2013, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research forecasts.
Homeowners in Leeds and London are the most likely in the UK to make a claim for theft or burglary on their home insurance policy, research from MoneySupermarket.com has found.
Nearly one in four people struggling with debt has taken a payday loan, research from Vincent Bond & Co shows.
Brokers will have to pay the Financial Services Authority £13.43 for every £1,000 of their annual income, says the FSA in its latest Annual Funding Requirement.
The need for proper financial advice and affordability assessments are vital if tenants are to take up the offer of right to buy in a sustainable manner, says Hometrack.
Platform will withdraw three of its mainstream products tomorrow, the lender has announced.
Landlords in the East Midlands achieved the highest average rental yield across the UK at 6.4% in Q4 2011, figures from Paragon Mortgages reveal.
Average buy-to-let fixed and variable rates reduced by 0.10% and 0.06% respectively during Q4 2011, figures from TBMC reveal.
Less than one in ten people have a critical illness policy in place whilst 12% have taken out a pet insurance policy, research from Ageas Protect reveals.
A £1.5m fraud has been stopped dead in its tracks and the perpetrators are now awaiting sentence after bridging lender Masthaven alerted authorities of a suspicious application.
Nationwide has raised rates between 10 and 20bps on its fixed and tracker rates although its 95% loan to value rates remains unchanged.
Zurich has announced it paid out 92% of critical illness claims in 2011 with payments amounting to £64.5m.
The number of new “for sale” listings jumped 63% in January from December, figures from Agency Express show.
Nigel Payne has joined Mortgage Introducer as non-executive chairman of the company.
Head of notorious Glaswegian crime family, Edward “Eddie” Lyons, is to have £75,000 in assets confiscated from him after committing mortgage fraud, BBC Scotland reports.
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