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A look back at last week’s most read stories

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  • 02/11/2012
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A look back at last week’s most read stories
Each Friday, Mortgage Solutions rounds up the most popular articles on the website over the past week.

Top five stories of the week:

 

Claims firms to encourage interest-only ‘mis-sales’ actions

FSA sets £100k income threshold for minimum fees

Claims firms eye interest-only mis-selling – Analysis

NatWest cuts 5-year fix to 2.99%

Are brokers the biggest MMR winners?


Some articles you may have missed:

 

Diversify or die?

Blogger Geoff Hall, director at Berkeley Alexander explains why brokers can no longer rely on mortgage sales alone to provide the level of income they need, in his blog Diversify or die?

Where now for individual registration?

Jon Round, chief executive of First Complete explains what the industry should do next as it awaits news from the FSA to move ahead with the approved persons regime for mortgage brokers.

A cautionary tale for lenders everywhere

Mortgage Solutions’ anonymous blogger The Insider gives us the lowdown on his latest repossession case: “We are commencing our 13th attempt to repossess Mrs Malone’s property. She doesn’t pay her mortgage and hasn’t done so for six years. She has successfully avoided this on numerous occasions by the simple expedient of complaining.”

Heseltine files ‘damning’ report on coalition strategy

Former Conservative cabinet stalwart Michael Heseltine is to argue the coalition government cannot continue on its current economic path in a “damning” critique of its growth strategy.

 

Top tweets of the week:

 

Elizabeth Windsor ‏@Queen_UK

Text from George Osborne: “Pinch, punch, first of the month and no returns”. Nob.

Larry the Cat ‏@Number10cat

It’s not been a good night for Nick Clegg; the Government lost a vote in the Commons and Osborne didn’t have any sweets when he knocked…

Anne Ashworth ‏@AnneAshworth

Scary statistic of day. In mid-2000s, half of UK banks’ retail profits came from selling PPI (payment protection insurance)

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