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FSA indefinitely delays individual registration for mortgage brokers

10 Feb 2012 | By Natalie Thomas

The Financial Services Authority has indefinitely delayed its plans to introduce individual registration for mortgage brokers.

60 seconds with - Hugh Wade-Jones, director Enness Private Clients

6 February 2012 | By Samuel Dale

Why it's kicking off everywhere

6 February 2012 | By Samuel Dale

By Paul Mason

The Mortgage Mole

6 February 2012

Fees Faff The press office at the Financial Services Authority made a faux pas last week when deputy editor Natalie Thomas telephoned to ask about its funding requirement for 2012/13.

Top of the League

30 January 2012 | By David Finlay, Managing Director for mortgages, Barclays

Top Of The League - the competition that seeks to reward the best talent in the broker market - has returned for another season. Launched by Woolwich mortgages from Barclays in 2010, the aim is to offer intermediaries an opportunity to scoop fantastic prizes, such as the Barclays Premier League Player Of The Month trophy. But this season has an exciting twist. Working with Barclays and last season’s judges, who have signed on for another year, the competition will concentrate on networks ...

MS Leader: Rent-back breathes its last

6 February 2012

The Financial Services Authority effectively gave last rites to the sale-and-rent-back market last week with its pronouncement that the market has shut its doors.

FTB figures show remarkable resilience

6 February 2012 | By Nigel Stockton, financial services director at Countrywide

Welcome to 2012 and my first article of the year. This time I thought I’d have a look at some topics that have already caught my eye. Probably the biggest and most significant piece of news to affect the industry recently is Halifax’s decision to move the LTV for certain developers on new-build houses to 90%. The move is a major breakthrough for mortgage customers, brokers and developers.

New levy will scare off home builders

6 February 2012 | By Jason Orme, editor, Homebuilding and Renovating

Just when you thought the chances of us building more houses in the near future was getting better - what with a raft of government initiatives from the New Homes Bonus to the National Planning Policy Framework - things have taken a turn for the worse.

Closure of this profitable lender is surreal

6 February 2012 | By Paul Muolo

On this side of the Atlantic where 30-year fixed rate mortgages can still be had at less than 4%, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the gang from the classic cartoon strip Peanuts, have given residential lending the boot.

Don't be so fast to let technology take over

6 February 2012 | By Richard Sexton, Business Development Director, E.Surv

Chances are that you’re from the final generation on the planet that will remember the world before the internet.

Interest charges may cost your clients dear

6 February 2012 | By Alan Cleary, Managing Director, Precise Mortgages

Something all brokers should watch out for is the way in which bridging lenders calculate interest charges.