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Nationwide launches four-year fix at 3.89%
Nationwide has launched a four-year Flexclusive fixed rate mortgage for both homebuyers and remortgage customers who hold a FlexAccount with the society as their main current account – with a rate of 3.89% for loans up to 70% LTV.
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Mortgage Brain's mortgage app used over 10,000 times
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NatWest introduces new deals
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Brightstar Financial teams up with Positive Solutions
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AToM teams up with Omni Capital
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Bright Grey beefs up its CI cover and increases its limit for life cover to £10m
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Top regulator says dangerous myth of free banking must end
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Former B&B commercial director joins HML
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MBE Manchester: FSA denies MMR cause of drop in lending
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MBE Manchester: 100% LTV loans and sub-prime must return
60 seconds with... David Webster, chairman, Building Societies Association
You were chairman of the Building Societies Association in 2010-11 and now again in 2012-13, how does it feel to be back in the hot seat?
Great Euro Crash with Robert Peston
If you’re already depressed about the crisis unfolding in Europe and what it could mean for the UK, then stay well away from the BBC’s second programme on the continental nightmare.
Caption Competition
Housing minister Grant Shapps visits a windowless self-build home in Almere, The Netherlands
Top of the league
Top of the League - April
This month’s winner is Phillip Streets, Owner, Independent Mortgage Advice Bureau
Blogs
Insurancereview - May 2012
We’ve all seen the advertisements that ask – ‘Have you had a credit card with any of the following companies? Or a loan with any of these banks? Or were you sold insurance you didn’t need or want? If so call this number now’.
Battening down the hatches - what a Greek exit would mean for the UK mortgage market
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a blog predicting a Greek departure from the euro. I suggested that this was the inevitable scenario given that Greece has debt at 144% of GDP and its economy was and is in a downward spiral of contraction and austerity.
Getting the private medical insurance industry into shape
Brokers have been wary of selling private medical cover due to historical issues but the commission on offer is fair and the sector is not difficult to get to grips with
Landlords have to protect themselves from rent arrears
Brokers have a crucial role to play in educating clients on the options they have to prevent or deal with arrears
Marketwatch - May 2012
Greece is the word this week, so is Spain for that matter, but there is nothing anyone can do about that.
Don’t let ASU rule changes put you off selling vital product
Increased regulation is not necessarily a bad thing and should boost confidence in ASU cover, despite the hype
