Mortgages

Halifax will launch a new range of broker-only tracker products on Monday, 2 June, with reduced rates of up to 30 basis points and reduced fees.

Northern Rock is planning to double staff numbers at its debt management department, suggesting the nationalised bank is expecting repossessions and arrears to increase.

Mortgages over £1m are on course for extinction, and the few remaining deals charge crippling fees, according to HFM Columbus.

The lending community is at last re-awakening to the fact that intermediary distribution is a valuable service, with the realisation also dawning on the remaining minority of borrowers not currently using a broker.

An influx of dual-pricing queries at the FSA seems to have led to some confusion at the regulator, with small firms contacts failing to properly respond to other queries.

Paradigm Mortgage Services today announced it will offer its members access to direct-to-lender deal information.

Mortgage brokers and lenders will find it difficult to defend themselves against a rising tide of mis-selling claims, according to city law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC).

Abbey for Intermediaries has today increased the number of brokers who can access its range of broker exclusive products.

Dear Mr Sants, I am writing to you on behalf of the huge number of IFAonline.co.uk readers who believe the FSA's response to the issue of dual-pricing has been insufficient and are calling for urgent further action.

Home Buyer Systems has launched a monitoring system for senior management to control TCF within their businesses.