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The Mortgage Solutions One-to-One with Peter Welch from Bridgewater
Mortgage Solutions editor Victoria Hartley talks to Peter Welch.
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Bright Grey improves life payout performance
Bright Grey has revealed it paid 98% of life claims made in the first six months of the year, 2% more than the same period last year.
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Cummings lauds successor Gay as 'man of integrity'
Chris Cummings, the outgoing director general of AIFA and AMI, has lauded replacement Stephen Gay as a 'man of integrity' and says his recent past as an Aviva director does not matter.
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Osborne to abolish Pre-Budget Report
Chancellor George Osborne will scrap the Pre-Budget Report this year and replace it with a slimmed-down autumn statement.
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Mortgage Mutterings - The week that was 31 August - 03 September
This is the Mortgage Solutions weekly talk back page. Each week, we'll pick the best letters to the editor and online comments to the hottest stories to give you a flavour of what the industry is really thinking.
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Aviva's Stephen Gay gets Cummings' AIFA role
Aviva's director of distribution development Stephen Gay has been named as the new director general of AIFA, replacing Chris Cummings.
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MS Poll: Cash flow problems hit 81% of brokers
The latest Mortgage Solutions poll has revealed eight out of ten brokers have suffered credit problems with their bank in the last 12 months.
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£10,000 worth of adviser advertising up for grabs
Legal & General has teamed up with Your Mortgage, the market leading consumer mortgage magazine, to give you the chance to win £10,000 worth of free advertising.
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MS Blog: Why are we so afraid of falling house prices?
The only way is up Yazz said in 1988 and the UK has certainly taken that message to heart for housing in the last 15 years or so, with every double digit annual house price increase trumpeted as a Good Thing.
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Deal on EU-wide financial supervisors agreed
A European-wide Systemic Risk Board and three separate agencies will be set up to monitor securities, banks and insurance companies, but Britain has been assured the deal will not weaken its sovereignty.
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MS Blog: Should we be buying property for our children now?
Time certainly flies. This week you may be blinking back the tears as you wave your little treasure off at the gates on his first day at school but just you wait. It won't be long before you've got tears in your eyes once again as he's asking for an astronomical amount of cash to put towards the deposit on a flat.
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Prime London property price growth continues to soften
The annual rate of property price rises in London has fallen from 21% in April to 16% in August, reported Knight Frank.
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Mortgage Solutions Poll: Will further house price falls boost the industry? Vote now
Nationwide's chief economist, Martin Gahbauer, has called the house price falls of the last two months "not an unhealthy development". Do you think further declines in property prices will boost mortgage activity?
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RBS cuts another 3,500 jobs
RBS has announced a further 3,500 job cuts across England and Scotland in the firm’s technical and back office divisions.
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Insurer CEO used £35k of client money to buy car
The FSA has imposed a lifetime ban on David Marriott, the former chief executive of two insurance intermediaries, for persistent misuse of client money.
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90% of landlords in South East will be hit by government rent caps
A survey suggests a third of social tenants could be made homeless and 90% of landlords in London and the South East will be affected by the upcoming changes in housing benefit legislation.
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Hargreaves: Raising rates could spell disaster for industry
Rising interest rates could lead to a surge of repossessions, with many people simply walking away from their homes rather than pay mortgages, Peter Hargreaves has claimed.
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AFI cuts rates at 80% LTV
Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) is set to launch an exclusive two-year fix at 3.09% available up to 60% LTV.
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Coventry BS finalises merger with Stroud & Swindon
Coventry Building Society has completed its merger with Stroud & Swindon Building Society, in a deal that will migrate 200,000 customers and cut their mortgage interest rates.
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Yorkshire BS drops first-time buyer rate
Yorkshire Building Society has reduced the rate of its first-time buyer mortgage to 5.59% after seeing a surge in demand for the product since June.
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Former Lehman chief blames US regulators for collapse
Former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld believes the investment bank may have been able to survive if US authorities had given it the same assistance as its rivals.
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BoE to hold rates until Q2 next year, say economists
A cooling global economy and an impending austerity squeeze in Britain will make the Bank of England (BoE) wait well into next year before hiking interest rates, a poll of 60 economists suggests.
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House prices drop 0.9% in August, says Nationwide
House prices fell for the second consecutive month in August, by 0.9%, the first time prices have dropped for two months in a row since February 2009, according to Nationwide.
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Incisive Media unveils Adviserhound.com
Incisive Media today launches Adviserhound.com, the industry’s first financial find engine designed specifically to cater for the day-to-day business needs of financial advisers.
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Brokers feel the threat of aggregators
The internet and comparison sites are seen as one of the biggest threats to business by 28% of brokers, according to Assurant Intermediary.
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The Mortgage Solutions One-to-One with Alison Beech from Spicerhaart
Mortgage Solutions editor Victoria Hartley talks to Alison Beech.
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Blog: Homefree or homeless? The future of the UK housing market
Politicians have always kept a keen eye on the housing and mortgage market, with good reason. Housing is a pretty fundamental human requirement, which sets mortgages aside from other financial services such as say, car insurance, which while necessary and worthwhile, is unlikely to stir up any base instincts and as such is probably not going to prove much motivation to potential voters.
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Blu and Paymentshield offer debt and insurance seminars
Blu Debt Management, in partnership with Paymentshield, is offering 18 debt management and insurance joint seminars for mortgage advisers and IFAs throughout the country.
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Market Watch: Does the mortgage trade press come up to scratch?
The mortgage industry has undergone sweeping changes in the last few years and the trade press is working hard to reflect that. Yet, without singling out titles, what could the trade press do better and what does it need to do to serve the industry more effectively?
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Market Watch: Does the mortgage trade press come up to scratch?
The mortgage industry has undergone sweeping changes in the last few years and the trade press is working hard to reflect that. Yet, without singling out titles, what could the trade press do better and what does it need to do to serve the industry more effectively?
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Market Watch: Does the mortgage trade press come up to scratch?
The mortgage industry has undergone sweeping changes in the last few years and the trade press is working hard to reflect that. Yet, without singling out titles, what could the trade press do better and what does it need to do to serve the industry more effectively?
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Market Watch: Does the mortgage trade press come up to scratch?
The mortgage industry has undergone sweeping changes in the last few years and the trade press is working hard to reflect that. Yet, without singling out titles, what could the trade press do better and what does it need to do to serve the industry more effectively?
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Finance executives cycle 600 miles for charity
This coming Saturday, 4 September 2010, sixteen intrepid cyclists from the financial services industry will set out from Lowestoft, East Anglia on a trip that will take them from the most easterly point of England to the most westerly point of Ireland.
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Tenant arrears improve
Over the last 12 months tenant arrears have remained stable or fallen, according to 84% of landlords.
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Detached house price growth outstrips all others
The average detached family home has increased in value by £91 a day over the past year, more than any other type of property, according to Halifax.