Mortgage Strategy
21 February 2011
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60 Seconds with...Tony Daykin
21 February 2011
General manager Safe&Secure Insurance Services
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Advisers can have a role in debt advice
21 February 2011
PAUL BLYTH, PRINCIPAL, ENABLE MONEY SOLUTIONS
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ARs need support to grow their business
21 February 2011
PAUL NYE, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, STONEBRIDGE GROUP
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Assurant sets its sites on intermediary services
21 February 2011
Specialist general insurance provider Assurant Intermediary has launched BrokerZone, a dedicated area on its website for intermediaries.
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Barclays is accused of spin after it claims 13% of mortgage market
21 February 2011
Barclays Bank is laying claim to 13% of the gross mortgage market after increasing its gross lending to £16.9bn in 2010.
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BDM service can put a smile on the face of brokers
21 February 2011
BDMs play a central role in keeping intermediaries informed and supporting their efforts to place business
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Brightstar teams up with Intrinsic Financial Services
21 February 2011
Specialist distributor Brightstar Financial has linked with Intrinsic Financial Services offering 600 plus advisers its products.
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Broker opinion ignored for Shapps' FTB summit
21 February 2011
ROBERT SINCLAIR: AMI HAS INSIGHT INTO FTB MARKET
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Brokers can still be optimistic about a challenging year
21 February 2011
The CML says the market won’t grow this year but deals for first-time buyers and remortgaging could help
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CAN YOU HAVE A POP TO WIN THIS BOTTLE OF MIGHTY FINE CHAMPAGNE?
21 February 2011
Trinity’s Aaron Strutt and Lloyds’ Clare Mortimer meet the stilt people at Mortgage Strategy’s 9th awards ceremony last week
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Challenges of a changing marketplace
21 February 2011
Providing financial advice in an environment of a housing shortage, high prices, an increasing rental sector, regulation changes and a generation of advanced technology is certainly going to keep us busy
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Citri is set to become an AR with Openwork
21 February 2011
Citri is to become an appointed representative of Openwork.
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Cream of the industry rewarded
21 February 2011
TOP PERFORMERS WON PRAISE
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CRM systems can provide debt alerts
21 February 2011
SOPHIE HALL, DISTRIBUTION DIRECTOR, INTELLIFLO
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Do your homework before selling firms
21 February 2011
DAVID HESKETH, GROUP M&A MANAGER, PERSPECTIVE FINANCIAL GROUP
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Exclusive fixed rate deals available from Openwork
21 February 2011
Openwork is offering two exclusive fixed rate Halifax products for remortgage and purchase customers. For buyers with a 10% deposit, the two-year fixed rate mortgages offer a rate of 5.79% with a £1,499 fee, or 5.99% with a £999 fee.
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Expand your offer to retain customers
21 February 2011
GEMMA HARLE, MANAGING DIRECTOR, TENETLIME
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Fixed arrangement fees could help B2L
21 February 2011
CONOR MURPHY, MANAGING DIRECTOR, CAPRICORN
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Follow Saffron and Melton's lead with more high LTVs
21 February 2011
On reading that Taylor Wimpey is offering first-time buyers 95% LTV mortgages on a number of its developments in the East Midlands, East Anglia and East London, I have one question (Mortgage Strategy Online February 15).
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Gain customers by investing in some marketing
21 February 2011
The lifetime value of customers is what really counts so spending on marketing will pay off in the long run
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High fees will fall along with the remortgage giants
21 February 2011
I was interested to read last week that loans for remortgages were at a 13-year low in 2010 (Mortgage Strategy Online, February 11).
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Higher oil prices and VAT prompt inflation to hit 4%
21 February 2011
Inflation hit 4% in January, up from 3.7% in December, the Office for National Statistics revealed last week.
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Hit and miss
21 February 2011
Some swear by lead generation while others say it misses the target
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IFAs should make use of people power
21 February 2011
JON KING, MANAGING DIRECTOR, MORE2LIFE
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Intermediaries will survive and prosper
21 February 2011
BOB YOUNG, MANAGING DIRECTOR, CAPITAL HOME LOANS
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It may be time for the second charge of the loan brigade
21 February 2011
Securing a mortgage is set to become more difficult so canny servicers are offering loans to boost deposits
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January's fall stifles hopes of lending rise
21 February 2011
Hopes of an increase in mortgage lending in 2011 were dashed last week as it was revealed gross mort-gage lending fell 13% in January from December’s figure.
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Keep a close eye on products to stay ahead of the game
21 February 2011
With so many changes distributors and intermediaries should combine forces to check on product ins and outs
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Kensington and Precise eye up bridging sector
21 February 2011
Kensington and Precise Mortgages are believed to be looking to enter the bridging sector in 2011.
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Lack of underwriting expertise results in applications being denied by lenders
21 February 2011
Lenders continually claim that the lack of wholesale funds and low levels of redemptions means they remain restrained.
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LAST WEEK'S WINNER
21 February 2011
“Mr Shapps, have you actually ever met anyone who has a mortgage?”TOM CLEARYSTART MORTGAGES
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Leadbay creditors only likely to receive 10%
21 February 2011
Some creditors of Leadbay are set to receive just 10% of money owed to them after the firm entered into administration, Mortgage Strategy understands.
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Leader: Talk to the right people
21 February 2011
Well everyone it seems other than the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries - for some reason Shapps snubbed brokers.
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Less competition helped Just Retirement's 20% boost in sales
21 February 2011
Just Retirement has attributed its 20% boost in equity release sales to other providers pulling out of the sector.
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Loan-to-income caps could help curtail bad lending says Treasury
21 February 2011
ANDREW STRANGE: SHIFT IN POWER IS WORRYING
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Marketwatch
21 February 2011
A base rate increase is on its way, depending on how long Mervyn King can keep the Bank of England members of the MPC to hold the line, and Halifax has listened to feedback and improved services to brokers
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Match the product with the customer for equity release
21 February 2011
Kevin Bray, insight analyst for banking at Defaqto,talked about how equity release was a product that relied on the expertise of the adviser to match the right product with an individual customer (Mortgage Strategy February 14).
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Media Spotlight: Open: An Autobiography
21 February 2011
By Andre Agassi
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Month of two halves for remortgaging
21 February 2011
RICHARD SEXTON, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, E.SURV
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More high LTVs on offer in a bid to capture dwindling FTB market
21 February 2011
BRIAN MURPHY, FIRST-TIME BUYERS PUT OFF
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MPC must look at inflation's effect on property owners
21 February 2011
A bold monetary policy that balances inflation and interest rates is needed to allow medium-term growth
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Prime market remained stable in December 2010
21 February 2011
The UK prime residential mortgage-backed securities market remained stable in December, reveals data from Moody’s Investors Service.
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Profits will prompt specialist return
21 February 2011
AARON STRUTT, HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS, TRINITY FINANCIAL SERVICES
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Raising interest rates will lead us into depression
21 February 2011
With all the talk of rising inflation it’s surprising how many people are falling for the interest rates must rise to control inflation line.
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Repossessions set to rise in second half and into 2012
21 February 2011
HML predicts that repossessions will fall during the first half of 2011 to 15,557 before rising during the second half to 17,700.
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Rise and stall of house prices in 2011 forecast
21 February 2011
After year-on-year growth of 6.4% in 2010 the housing recovery will stall in 2011, leaving prices 1.7% lower than last year, says the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
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Sniff out the best critical illness cover
21 February 2011
GRAHAM HARVEY, MANAGING DIRECTOR INDIVIDUAL, FRIENDS PROVIDENT
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Surge in lending unlikely as jobless figures increase
21 February 2011
Rising unemployment will continue to stifle mortgage lenders’ appetite to lend, says Paul Hunt, managing director at Phoebus Software.
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The mortgage mole
21 February 2011
DIGGING THE DIRT IN THE MORTGAGE WORLD…
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The real problem for FTBs is the lack of homes being built
21 February 2011
Lending at 95% LTV is not the answer to the problems of a lack of first-time buyers in the market.
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Three's a crowd for Lloyd's negative equity mortgage
21 February 2011
David Hollingworth, mortgage specialist at London & Country, recently wrote a blog on Mortgage Strategy Online about Lloyds Banking Group’s mortgage for borrowers in negative equity. He mentioned that it was a shame brokers did not have access to the product.
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Unemployment only option back at Paymentshield
21 February 2011
Paymentshield is restoring its unemployment only option on its mortgage payment protection insurance product.
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What the papers say is not always clear
21 February 2011
ROBERT WINFIELD, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, CHARTWELL HEALTHCARE
