Best-buy tables still 'Top of the Pops'

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The must-see programme of our youth - Top of the Pops has been consigned to the dustbins of our collective memory, as it was apparently no longer 'relevant' to the audience of today.

Some in the mortgage market believe that best-buy tables for buy-to-let products should go the same way – and for a similar reason. Like pop pickers, investors have ‘moved on’, becoming much more sophisticated. No longer are they only concerned with what the interest rate associated with a particular product may be, other criteria is equally important, for example rental criteria. But just like the BBC recognises the importance of chart positioning (for some listeners and more importantly the music industry) and continues with a chart run-down show on the radio each week, rates are still...

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