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How to revive the mortgage market
Legal & General's ‘Mortgage Manifesto' aims at stimulate debate on what government, providers, brokers and borrowers can do to get the mortgage market moving again. Ben Thompson, managing director of Legal & General Mortgage Club, sets out its ideas.
The industry mood? Surprisingly upbeat
Curiously, since the start of the year there has been a run of data around the mortgage market that has been looking a little more positive.
Maturing times: The mortgage market hits puberty
Puberty. It brings with it so many changes. Some welcome, some not so welcome.
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Help is at hand: adverse lending is back
The year has started a lot better than expected: specialist lenders are demonstrating an appetite to lend, customers are in demand of such lenders and packagers are not extinct.
The spectacular collapse of property transactions
Recent HMRC data shows the number of property transactions in the UK remained at a depressed level in 2011, but what are the causes of this continued slump in transactions?
Opportunity knocks: Have you tried a new lender yet?
The first challenge any prospective new mortgage lender has to overcome is FSA bureaucracy.
FSA-approved friends: Lenders want to know you better
Over the first few weeks of this year, it was easy to see what most lenders got for Christmas.
London: a property market like no other
In the first of his regular blogs, Mark Harris, chief executive of SPF Private Clients, explains what makes London such a special market and why that basement swimming pool is so important...
Have new buy-to-let lenders lived up to expectations?
Mortgages for Business managing director David Whittaker considers what the new entrants to buy to let have brought to the sector and what more needs to be done.
For or against: Buy to let's growth divides the masses
In her first blog for Mortgage Solutions since launching her marketing and PR agency, Bien Media, Melanie Bien examines how the rise of buy to let is generating as much negative reaction as good.
Imagine you're the businessman you want to be..
We’re already into the second month of the year and, for many of us, our New Year’s resolutions are a dim memory along with those of the Christmas and New Year parties.
Goodbye and good riddance sale and rent back
What a mess. The Sale and Rent Back sector has finally been closed five long years after the Council of Mortgage Lenders, Citizen's Advice and Shelter jointly called for regulation, branding the actions of some firms, "daylight robbery."
Majority of advisers expect to write more BTL in 2012
The press has been mixed recently on prospects for the buy-to-let and wider mortgage market for the next 12 months.
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