Mortgages

CHL Commercial, the commercial lending arm of CHL Mortgages, has appointed Stuart Kay as business development manager.

Newcastle Building Society Equity Release Service is asking advisers who do not have a specialist knowledge of equity release products to introduce it to suitable clients.

Tough times in the mortgage market are causing intermediaries to become increasingly reliant on networks, according to Paragon Mortgages.

The Conservative Party has been challenged to a public debate on the pros and cons of Home Information Packs (HIPs), by HIP Payment Services.

Perspective is a wonderful thing, but it seems that in the present climate we are losing it by the bucket load.

Clive Briault's warning that 1.5 million people due to remortgage next year will find it "difficult, if not impossible to refinance their mortgage on favourable terms" could cause undue panic, according to Newcastle Building Society.

US President George Bush has unveiled plans to freeze interest rates on sub-prime mortgages to help alleviate the crisis engulfing the United States mortgage arena.

Advisers are being urged to keep an eye on how a client's mortgage arrears are reported by credit agencies as there could be a potential TCF breach.

An insurance broker has launched a mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) product for UK commercial mortgages in a move it says is a market first.

Step by step, slowly but surely, Home Information Packs are entering our lives and, although it is probably too early to assess their long-term impact on the market, anecdotal evidence suggests that, so far, they have been largely perceived as negative....