FSA: mortgage rules will return 'common sense' to market

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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published final rules on mortgage selling, convinced they will "put common sense at the heart of the market" and prevent borrowers taking out unaffordable deals.

The new rules will come into force in 18 months' time - on 26 April 2014 - and follow the Mortgage Market Review (MMR). The regulator said most of its original proposals, published almost a year ago, will be implemented unchanged. Among others, these include: That lenders - not intermediaries - will be responsible for affordability checks; That lenders will verify income in all cases and stress test against future interest rate increases; That all interactive sales, such as face-to-face and over-the-phone, are 'advised' sales, except where the customer is a mortgage profession...

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