Over 2,000 Help to Buy mortgages agreed

I think this is really positive news. HTB2 is helping exactly the kind of families that it was designed to and that we all wanted it to.

It is clearly not London centric and the £600k purchase price limit is not being troubled in the slightest. Let’s all celebrate the early success of a initiative that will really take off in January…

Good Mortgage Man

Sub-prime lender slams ‘fast asleep’ mortgage brokers

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Shawbrook is the specialist mortgage sector’s ‘best kept secret’ – Sard

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We were told by our mortgage network we cannot do it, as it would not meet our internal checks. In other words we cannot “recommend” their products.

AnonBroker

Hector Sants resigns from Barclays with stress and exhaustion

Probably decided to spend more time with his pension.

Chris Fleetwood

Sub-prime lender slams ‘fast asleep’ mortgage brokers

Do you lend in Scotland? No? Then how can we use you?

Robert Gray, HMG Financial Services

Former broker launches client referral platform

Sounds overly complicated to me. And we can all do this with our clients now if we are so minded. “Pass my details to a friend, and if they sign-up, I will send you £50 of John Lewis vouchers”. How hard is that? We have all been raised to ask for referrals, it’s in our DNA…

Good Mortgage Man

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