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The latest Mortgage Solutions poll has revealed eight out of ten brokers have suffered credit problems with their bank in the last 12 months.
The only way is up Yazz said in 1988 and the UK has certainly taken that message to heart for housing in the last 15 years or so, with every double digit annual house price increase trumpeted as a Good Thing.
Time certainly flies. This week you may be blinking back the tears as you wave your little treasure off at the gates on his first day at school but just you wait. It won't be long before you've got tears in your eyes once again as he's asking for an astronomical amount of cash to put towards the deposit on a flat.
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Nationwide's chief economist, Martin Gahbauer, has called the house price falls of the last two months "not an unhealthy development". Do you think further declines in property prices will boost mortgage activity?
House prices fell for the second consecutive month in August, by 0.9%, the first time prices have dropped for two months in a row since February 2009, according to Nationwide.
Two of the country's leading economists will kick off Legal & General’s Mortgage Market Roadshows this September by discussing the outlook for the economy and what it means for the mortgage industry.
Mortgage club Legal & General has recruited Philip Hesketh to lead its ‘Successful selling' sessions at its two road shows in September.
Nationwide is set to cut rates by up to 0.20% on selected remortgage products, with the average cut across the range of 15%.
Legal & General Mortgage Club is set to host two roadshows in Reading and Manchester in September for mortgage advisers keen to evolve their skills, meet new contacts and plug into the debate on the state of the mortgage market.
Legal & General Mortgage Club is hosting two road shows in the North and the South in September for mortgage advisers keen to pick up new skills, network and debate the state of the mortgage market.
Last week’s Mortgage Solutions poll found brokers were split over whether Nationwide is right to charge customers more for letting out their homes.
Lloyds Banking Group plans to slash the number of conveyancers on its member panel, in a bid to stave off fraud, with all candidates judged on business volume and individual company risk.
The housing market appears to have stalled as it enters the second half of 2010, with several indexes showing the market may have hit a plateau.
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