Opinion

With the recent pressures on lending, and interest rates showing little sign of falling, at least in the short-term, home buyers are finding it harder than ever to afford to purchase for the first time, or move.

Lamp posts have a right to stand vertically! In Britain we take it for granted, they stand tall and erect.

With so much doom and gloom in the mortgage market at the moment it is particularly pleasing for Mortgage Intelligence to be able to report an excellent set of results for the year ending 31 July.

For years the network propaganda machines have always played down the fact that the clients (or client files) of member firms are actually ultimately owned by the network itself. Although this fact is always conveniently remembered when a member firm...

If you were a fan of the seventies show Multicolored Swap Shop you will be interested in this story.

It's part of human nature to think that you are the only one going through an experience.

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right" Isaac Asimov

It's been a funny month since the last entry! After the near euphoria-inducing announcement from Cofunds that the UK Platform Group (UKPG) had got its act together and would be implementing an ISO-based platform-to-platform solution by the end of Q1 2008,...

Whether running a directly authorised or appointed representative network, trading conditions have been far from easy. Competition in this area is also very stiff and for those looking to make a good fist of their network operations in the coming months...

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