Making mortgages as safe as houses

How often have you read the warning, 'Your home is at risk if you do not keep up repayments on a mortgage or any other loans secured on it'? How often have you dismissed it as merely another necessary item of legal small print which has to appear on all sales material relating to house purchases? It is easy to ignore this statement, but for any IFAs planning to develop their protection business it is perhaps one of the strongest sales messages there is. According to a recent Mori poll conducted for Scottish Provident, mortgages in the UK are hugely under protected. It revealed that 39% o...