Dual pricing still up for debate

Is it really any wonder that the dual pricing debate is still bubbling away? After all, isn’t there still a disparity between intermediary and direct-to-lender products?

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While the issue (which was first championed by Mortgage Adviser last month) may not be monopolising the headlines to the same extent it has in previous weeks, the tension between the two camps is undeniably still there.

As reader David Oastler posted (in response to IMLA’s attempt to smooth things over by saying advisers are still vital to the mortgage market), he can’t “help feeling that its another of those comments from the lenders’ side of the fence that is designed to keep relationships on a ‘positive’ note whilst they carry on undercutting our businesses”.

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