Supplements: Mortgage Brief
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Feburary 2008 – Hamptons courts the market
- Hamptons International Mortgages managing director Jonathan Cornell talks to Gregor Watt about the firm’s expansion plans, including linking up with the estate agency business. He gives his take on Northern Rock and says there is a pent-up demand in the mortgage market and that the floodgates will open
January 2008 – Crunch Points
- Premier Mortgage Services managing director John Malone talks about the crucial months ahead for rate cuts, redundancies and consolidation, why the regions will weather the storm of falling prices and what’s next for him and PMS
November 2007 – Jannels' vision
- All Types of Mortgages executive chairman Vic Jannels says people coming off fixed deals and discounts are going to have a heavy impact on the market. He gives his take on repossessions, the closure of the credit markets, house prices and the plight of first-time buyers
October 2007 – Walk on the Wyles side
- Nationwide group chief executive Matthew Wyles talks about the key drivers behind the Portman merger, the importance of intermediaries, FTBS and long fixes
September 2007 – Bolton’s blast
- Edeus chief executive Michael Bolton on why Darling should resign over Northern Rock, funding concerns and hitting the £1bn mark ahead of expectations
August 2007 - Cascading cases
- Our panel assess the potential perils of sub-prime and the search for deals after a client comes down from the prime stream
July 2007 - Building Bridges
Skipton Building Society chief executive John Goodfellow says lenders are detached from first-time buyers and must reconnect for the good of the market
June 2007 - Knight Life
- Stephen Knight, executive chairman of GMAC-RFC, talks about why his entrepreneurial instincts are leading him to take on a new venture
May 2007 - Savills' travels
- Savills Private Finance managing director Mark Harris tells Mortgage Brief about creating the company, offering a one-stop solution, the issues facing the market and Savills' ambitions for the future.
April 2007 - Ray Boulger Mortgage Man
- The industry's best known spokesman talks about interest rate rises, helping first-time buyers and what keeps him interested in mortgages.
March 2007 - Sub way to go
- Our panel consider the fate of employed self-cert, the fallout from the US sub-prime crisis and brokers' proc fee structure
February 2007 - High pressure
- Our panel look at the effects of rising interest rates, increased competition, repossessions and the FSA's crackdown on exit fees
January 2007 - Will Concordia lift off?
- Our panel of experts debate whether the five mortgage broking giants behind the Concordia consortium - Alexander Hall, Chase De Vere Mortgage Management, Cobalt Capital, Hampton's International Mortgages and Savills Private Finance - will soon be flying high and will other brokers be left in their slipstream?