Feb 2012: The FSA has listened
The Council of Mortgage Lenders has been busy preparing its response to the MMR consultation. Paul Smee, director general of the CML, outlines some of...
Jan 2012: The wheel will turn
Paul Smee, director general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders gives a brief overview of what he sees as some of the challenges in 2012
Dec 2011 - Step in the right direction
Paul Smee, director general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders, discusses the government’s recently announced mortgage indemnity scheme
Nov 2011 - A tale of two reports
Two widely differing reports on the European mortgage directive have been published adding further to the confusion in this area. Paul Smee, director general...
Oct 2011 - Repossession or assisted voluntary...
Paul Smee, director general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders, looks at the issue of assisted voluntary sales of homes - an alternative option to repossession...
Sep 2011- Buy-to-let on the up
There has been a suggestion that landlords are buying first-time buyer properties but actually the rise in buy-to-let mortgage sector has been boosted...
Aug 2011 - Mates mortgages
The housing minister has suggested that friends could club together to take out a ‘mates mortgage’ but it’s not quite that simple, says Bernard Clarke...