Welcome to this week's top 10 stories on Mortgage Solutions and its sister title, Specialist Lending Solutions.
A broker was slammed with a £60,000 fine to reset the client’s financial position to where it was before the broker’s advice to take out an interest-only mortgage loan – the ruling centred on the lack of advice about the risk – not the interest-only product.
HMRC’s credit card ban and modern methods of construction also feature large this week.
On a far more sombre note, condolences to Vaughn Williams’ family and colleagues on the saddest news of his death this week.
Broker ordered to pay £60,000 over mis-sold interest-only mortgage
HMRC bans personal credit card use for Stamp Duty payments
More 2 Life manager Vaughn Williams passes away
‘In the UK, we are way behind the curve’ – BSA
UK towns with biggest house price rises revealed
Tech Talks: ‘All our advisers agree to open a Trustpilot account’ – Mortgagegym
Three new lenders eyeing development finance market
Nearly half of mortgage advisers worked over Christmas and New Year – poll result
Conveyancing to be cheaper, faster and simpler after digital change – Land Registry
Landlords must have licence for properties with more than four tenants under Government plans
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.
