So the year has started off with a glimmer of good news - gross mortgage lending is forecast to increase again this year.
The Council of Mortgage Lender forecasts said that 2012 will have ended on around £144bn gross, itself a good result compared to the woeful 2011, but also that 2013 would see £156bn being achieved. That's an 8% increase, and with house price inflation pretty much flat, that will go on increased volumes of transactions rather than just price drift. Nice. So what can we do to ensure that this uplift comes in our direction - borrowed by customers of the intermediary sector - rather than through bank and building society branches and call centres? Well there is one certain way - that i...
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