Mortgages

Independent think-tank The Policy Exchange yesterday launched a series of essays which all predict in 50 years time Thatcher's children will be worse off than their parents are today.

Intelligent Finance (IF) has appointed Murdo McHardy to the newly-created post of head of mortgages.

Leeds Building Society has expanded its online facility and case tracking functionality to include buy to let mortgages.

Unipass access to GMAC-RFC's point of sale offers using automated valuations (AVM) is one of 100 improvements already identified since it launched just a few weeks ago.

Mortgage intermediaries affiliated to St James's Place have been told they are being transferred to mortgage network Home of Choice.

Optoma Broker Solutions is refusing to take incoming calls from mortgage intermediaries until Wednesday morning.

Continuing the points made by Roger Tym, partner at law firm Lovells in 'Look beyond MiFID warns law firm - part 1'

Residential property in London is now worth over 50% more than the average UK house price, and the value of UK property has continued to climb by another 2.1% in the last quarter, according to Nationwide's latest house price index.

The proportion of first-time buyers paying stamp duty has leapt from 48% to 56% in the space of just a year, reveal the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Woolwich is now able to receive full mortgage applications from Trigold's Prospector AAA sourcing system and e-trading centre.