7 December, 2007
How do insurance companies come up with a price for insuring your clients’ properties? The short answer – for the more sophisticated players in today’s insurance market at least – is an approach known as risk-based pricing.
7 December, 2007
Recent Accenture research suggests that financial service organisations are now demanding that their outsourcing agreements should deliver across three dimensions – reducing cost, enhancing customer-centricity and boosting agility.
6 December, 2007
The eighth annual Mortgage Finance Gazette Awards were celebrated at a special awards dinner on 7 November to celebrate the vast amount of talent within the mortgage lending industry
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Guide to AVMs
Dave Wiseman, consultancy director at N4 Solutions, looks ahead to see how AVMs will develop with wider use to overcome many of their present limitations
Guide to AVMs
Guide to AVMs
Guide to AVMs
Automated valuation models (AVMs) are now an established and indispensable force within the mortgage industry, but already their use is evolving far beyond that of a valuation tool. David Catt, commercial director of Hometrack, the market-leading...
Guide to AVMs
22 November, 2007
Home information packs (HIPs) will be required for all properties being sold in England and Wales from 14 December, the government has announced.
11 October, 2007
14 November, 2007
The extension of the government's home information pack (Hips) scheme could bring about a negative investment trend in the rental sector, the Residential Lettings Association has said
October 2007
December 2007
Recent Accenture research suggests that financial service organisations are now demanding that their outsourcing agreements should deliver across three dimensions – reducing cost, enhancing customer-centricity and boosting agility. Piyush...
December 2007
December 2007
In this current climate of an uncertain property market, how relevant are Automated Valuation Models? Alan Gearing explains how Rightmove’s AVM works and the importance of up-to-date data
January 2008
November 2007
Lenders have been expressing an increased interest in title insurance in recent months as the US sub-prime crisis impacts on the UK mortgage market. Christian Bearman explains
December 2007
December 2007
How do insurance companies come up with a price for insuring your clients’ properties? The short answer – for the more sophisticated players in today’s insurance market at least – is an approach known as risk-based pricing. Nathan Williams...
September 2007
October 2007
Borrower default and third-party recoveries – lenders litigate at their peril. Confidence in the housing market is evaporating, and those on the fringes, lenders and borrowers alike, will be first to feel the pinch, says Nik Carle
April 2007
May 2007
This spring marks the introduction of the first substantive reforms under the Consumer Credit Act 2006 and radically overhauls and updates many provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 1974. Phil Catchpole reviews the impact of these reforms...
March 2007
April 2007
The housing and mortgage market in the Republic of Ireland has boomed beyond recognition over the past decade. Anthony Garvey looks at how the market has escalated so much and why it might topple
November 2006
November 2006
Adrian Coles, secretary general of the International Union for Housing Finance (IUHF), reports on its World Congress, held this year in Vancouver, Canada
March 2006
