Broker Blogger
By Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) I don’t want to dwell too much on the electoral campaign but lets be honest it’s pretty hard to ignore...
By Michael White, chief executive of online mortgage advisers, Email Mortgages In this business you sometimes wonder if anyone’s listening...
By Michael White, chief executive of online mortgage advisers, Email Mortgages There is much talk of housing affordability being at a seven-year high (Research by Zoopla), whereby the ‘average’ UK income earner can ostensibly afford to buy 58 per cent of all homes, up significantly in comparison to the property market peak in 2007, when just 34 per cent of homes were ‘affordable’...
By Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) I had a touch of déjà vu recently...
By Phil Whitehouse, Head of The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) I’m consistently astounded by the sheer amount of technological enhancements we see and experience both in the media and in our everyday lives...
By Michael White, chief executive of online mortgage advisers, Email Mortgages With the deadline for submissions to the Mortgage Market Review (MMR) now having passed, it has been interesting to see the public pronouncements from various bodies – CML, BSA, and AMI – about how they view the next step forward...
By Phil Whitehouse, head of mortgage club, The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) The beginning of a new year is always a time for some degree of reflection on personal and business matters...
By Michael White, chief executive of online mortgage advisers, Email Mortgages Whisper it quietly but there seems to be a growing feeling amongst the mortgage intermediary community that 2010 could be the year when the remortgage market makes something of a comeback...
By Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) I wonder if the Chancellor Alistair Darling ever watched the wonder of TV that was Surprise, Surprise with Cilla Black? I doubt it somehow...
By Michael White, chief executive of online mortgage adviser, www.emailmortgages.com It’s not long now until we’ll all be singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ at a raucous, celebratory New Year’s Eve party surrounded by our nearest and dearest; either that or we’ll be at home, asleep in a comfortable armchair with Jools Holland bellowing inanely at his Hootenanny guests and waking up to find that we’ve missed midnight and are now forced to walk around on New Year’s Day with a painful crick in the neck...
By Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) The mortgage market has never really been one for hiding its light under a bushel but the past month or so in particular has seen some industry voices being raised a little louder than normal...
By Michael White, chief executive, Email Mortgages This month’s blog can really only focus on one organisation, the FSA, given the all-encompassing impact it is currently having on the mortgage sector...
By Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) The FSA’s mortgage market review discussion paper has dominated the news recently...
By Michael White, chief executive of online mortgage adviser, Email Mortgages Ever since the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee cut Base Rate to its historical low of 0...
By Michael White, MD, Email Mortgages In the mortgage market a week can bring with it such a raft of news and developments that it can often be difficult to get a grip on everything that’s going on...
By Phil Whitehouse, head of The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) The UK, especially within the confines of financial services, has become accustomed to bad news over the past couple of years or so...
By Michael White, managing director of Email Mortgages Without wishing to go overboard, the past 10 days has certainly brought with it a raft of research and reports which appear to show the housing and mortgage markets in a much more positive light...
By Michael White, chief executive, Email Mortgages Michael White is both founder and chief executive of online mortgage advisers, Email Mortgages (www...
By Phil Whitehouse, managing director of The Mortgage Alliance The Mortgage Alliance has a loyal data base of 7,000 Directly Authorised mortgage intermediaries and as with most firms operating within the mortgage market it is having to overcome a number of obstacles in order to help members write business...
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- Move by Google hits financial comparison website........
- Lending to FTBs soars 74% but 'violent' falls ahead........
- HSBC in U-turn over conveyancing row........
- Adviser jailed after conning client........
- Angry advisers hit out at FSA over string of staff departures........
- Banking on the move – new app promises change........
- FSA stings Swiss bank with fines over money laundering........
- Appeals to lenders to support self-build projects........
- Association of Short Term Lenders swells its ranks........
- Mortgage lending will hit new low this year, says MAB boss........
