Mortgage lenders have been putting their shoulders to the wheel loosening interest-only product criteria in recent months.
Natwest, Teachers Building Society, Virgin Money and Leeds BS have all made strides in closing the affordability gap for borrowers.
Our panelists from left to right, With Gareth Lowman and Martese Carton pictured, include:
Victoria Hartley, group editor and chair, Mortgage Solutions
Andrew Montlake, director, Coreco
Mark Graves, sales director, Sesame Bankhall Group
Gareth Lowman, associate director, SPF Private Clients
Martese Carton, head of intermediary distribution, Leeds Building Society
With thanks to our sponsors Leeds Building Society who made this video possible.
Victoria Hartley is contributing editor at Mortgage Solutions, Specialist Lending Solutions, Your Money and Your Mortgage at London-based publishing company AE3 Media.
She has an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths after gaining a 2:1 in a Comparative American Studies BA at Warwick University. She also holds a TEFL qualification and taught overseas in Mexico and Japan from 1994 to 1997.
Her role includes editorial oversight of the news, analysis and features, event content management and strategic and editorial consultancy for the AE3 Media group. She is an experienced video, broadcast and live-event host and regularly chairs web and podcast debates and interviews.
Multiple award nominations have resulted in two wins: Santander Media Awards, trade journalist of the year and Headlinemoney Awards, mortgage journalist of the year (B2B). Here is one of the award-winning pieces: https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2011/07/21/exclusive-tale-bailey-fraud-witness/
Previous roles include editorships of Mortgage Solutions, consumer title What Mortgage and trade title Credit Today as well as a stint freelancing for a variety of outlets including The Guardian and Which? Money.
