The Council of Mortgage Lenders has today published the latest figures showing that the Buy-to-let market had risen by 12% in the third quarter of 2010. Some 26,900 buy-to-let mortgages worth £2.8 billion were advanced during this period. There are currently around 1.29 million buy-to-let mortgages. Demand for buy-to-let mortgages is being fuelled by...
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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has released their mortgage market review discussion paper and they have outlined their proposal for tougher regulations. It is evident that they will be more authoritarian and intrusive in the way they regulate the mortgage industry in future. The FSA want to control the industry as they believe the...
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The Northern Rock was granted emergency financial support from the Bank of England on September 2007. Northern Rock under government control then announced in 2007 that they would not remortgage their existing mortgage borrowers to a new remortgage product. In fact the Northern Rock was informing their mortgage borrowers to remortgage to another mortgage...
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For sometime now we have heard the rumours about credit card debts and loans being written off by their various providers. Then last week BBC One showed a Panorama television programme called “Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay” We heard Sir Roy Good an eminent Solicitor who was involved with the drawing up of the Consumer...
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