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Towergate appoints director of client proposition
Towergate Financial, parent company of John Charcol, has appointed Dan Russell as director of client proposition.
John Charcol returns to profit
John Charcol announced that it is back in the black and trading profitably once more, following its takeover by Towergate Financial in February this year.
John Charcol 'profitable and expanding'
John Charcol has begun trading profitably once more, following its acquisition by Towergate Financial in February this year.
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Charcol offers SVR cap tool
John Charcol has launched The Interest Rate Protector, an interest rate cap that protects borrowers with large mortgages from rising rates, whether residential, buy to let (BTL) or commercial.
Fixed rate popularity high
A quarter of borrowers opted for fixed rate mortgages in May, as economic and political uncertainty pushed consumers to look for security, according to John Charcol.
Accord’s ten-year fixed rates welcomed
John Charcol has claimed Accord’s ten-year fixed rate deals offers borrowers real advantages in the current uncertain economic outlook.
Broker-only lender Precise launches
The Birmingham-based team behind Exact has launched Precise Mortgages, a specialist intermediary mortgage lender, with the release of three buy-to-let loans.
POLL: Borrowers favouring variable rates
Last week’s Mortgage Solutions poll has revealed that 42% of brokers are seeing the majority of their clients choosing variable rates over other deals.
Rates could drop 1% by early 2011
Average mortgage rates could fall from 4% to 3% by early next year, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
Market Watch
HSBC has launched a split loan mortgage to help customers facing the dilemma of whether to choose the security of a fixed rate deal or the flexibility of a tracker. Will this push intermediary lenders into offering similar innovative deals? Are they currently doing enough?
FSA to probe Goldman Sachs
The Financial Services Authority has launched an investigation into Goldman Sachs International after the US investment bank was accused of fraud by the American financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Brokers back suitability letters
Advisers have backed plans for suitability letters to be introduced as a means of improving advised sales standards in the FSA’s feedback statement to the Mortgage Market Review (MMR).
Indexing the indices
Industry guru Ray Boulger looks at why the five main house price indices differ and attempts to identify the most reliable
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