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“Paul found it hard not to laugh when John said Tottenham would win the Champions League”  Cammy Camaira, Manor Mortages

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Paul Merrigan (again) brings Brightstar’s Rob Jupp down a peg or two.

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15 May 2013

Last week two Mortgage Strategy journalists made the shortlist of the trade mortgage journalist of the year award at the prestigious Headlinemoney.co.uk awards

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Blogs

James Bawa MS blog

There’s no shortage of ways Govt could step in

21 May 2013 | By James Bawa, chief executive, Teachers Building Society

‘Good politics but horrendous economics’; ‘the trigger for another housing bubble’ and ‘plain daft’ - the chancellor George Osborne’s Help to Buy scheme has certainly had its critics.

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We should not become fixated with FTBs

17 May 2013 | By Dev Malle, group sales director, myhomemove

The more I think about it, I feel we have concentrated too much on first-time buyers as a catalyst for the housing market.

Richard Sexton MS blog 2012

Euston, we may have a problem

15 May 2013 | By Richard Sexton, Business Development Director, E.Surv

Everyone remembers where they were when the US landed on the moon and some obviously speculate that the astronauts themselves were eating doughnuts on a film set in LA.

Paul Smee MS blog

A good team effort on interest-only

15 May 2013 | By Paul Smee, director-general, Council Of Mortgage Lenders

So, the FCA interest-only thematic has finally seen the light of day.

Jon King MS blog

Pros and cons of business online

15 May 2013 | By Jon King, Managing Director, More2life

It’s hard, even impossible in some respects, to imagine life without the internet, whether that is looking for directions and information to buying groceries and dating – we do everything online.

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Build to Rent gets under way

15 May 2013 | By Bob Young, Managing Director, CHL Mortgages

With any announcements made in the Budget, after the initial reaction and feedback there is often a period of inactivity when nothing happens and it can feel like the initiatives have been forgotten about.

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