Hunter's Blog

Published by WARREN LEWIS – Friday, January 13, 2012 Almost 25% of advisers think 2012 will see more first time buyer activity according to the latest myintroducer.com poll, in partnership with Virgin Money: the saving, investment and home loan products provider. A total of 2,008 intermediaries answered the question: “Do you expect First-Time Buyers to…

Published by WARREN LEWIS- Friday, October 26, 2012 Today the findings of the Future Homes Commission’s year-long independent inquiry into the quality of newly built housing has been published ‘Building the Homes and Communities Britain Needs’ calls for a revolution in the scale, quality and funding of home-building in order to meet the housing needs…

Certainly not our most exciting blog, but relevent none the less. Published by WARREN LEWIS – Thursday, October 25, 2012 The FSA has published new rules that put common sense at the heart of the mortgage market and will prevent future borrowers ending up with a mortgage they cannot afford The new rules, the outcome…

One of the things we are finding more common in the rental market is the pressure from Landlords to drop fees to compete with some of the “bargain basement” type agents. Fee’s are important to everyone, cheap fees may seem great to a landlord, after all it’s about the profit right? Well, if you were to look…

The OFT has a searchable register of estate agents for anti-money laundering purposes and it is a legal requirement under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 that all estate agents are registered. A non-public register has been in place since 2009 but the public register allows the public, industry and regulators such as Trading Standards to…