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This week’s most read on Mortgage Solutions – 23/10/2015

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This week’s most read on Mortgage Solutions – 23/10/2015
Every Friday, Mortgage Solutions rounds up the most popular stories on the site over the past five days. This week, major industry job changes and consumer buy to let have been top of the agenda.

Mortgage fraud ring receives jail time

A Sale and Rent Back property and mortgage fraud ring has been jailed for scamming up to £300m from mortgage lenders by falsifying information on applications.

Osborne confirms FPC will get buy-to-let powers

Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) will be granted powers to intervene in the buy-to-let market ‘as soon as possible’.

Conveyancers blamed for property lease ‘time bomb’

Conveyancers have been blamed for creating a property lease ‘time bomb’ by failing to give buyers proper advice before they purchase a home.

Profile: Paul Adams, Santander for Intermediaries

Paul Adams, head of sales at Santander for Intermediaries, talks about how the lender sustains intermediary relationships and reveals the bank’s priorities for the near future.

Intermediary business could become even bigger by year-end

In the mortgage industry we’re never too far away from a good or bad stat. However, recent headlines really do underline how positive most of the current statistics are, at least in regards to the intermediary mortgage market, writes Jackie Uhi, managing director, mortgage distribution at Barclays.

Here’s some more you may have missed…

Is the Stonebridge Tenet tie-up a sign of the times? – Marketwatch

The recent Stonebridge and Tenet tie-up, reported by Mortgage Solutions, has piqued the interest of the industry as the two networks collaborated to accommodate the needs of Appointed Represented (AR) firms. This week we have asked our panel of distribution experts to examine the deal and assess whether this is the shape of things to come.

Right to Rent checks launch date announced

All private landlords in England will be required to carry out immigration checks on tenants before letting out a property from 1 February next year, the government has announced.

Case Study: How equity release helped keep my client in her home

John Webb, chartered financial planner at Midland Independent Financial Services, talks through his experience of helping a client stay in her home after she was almost forced out due to age discrimination.

ESIS and foreign currency changes ‘continue to concern’ lenders

The new European Standardised Information Sheet (ESIS) and changes to foreign currency loan requirements are continuing to cause concern among lenders, according to the European Mortgage Federation.

Bluestone reveals specialist buy-to-let plans – exclusive

Newly-launched lender Bluestone has revealed plans to introduce a specialist buy-to-let mortgage product by the end of the year.

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