In brief: Freedom goes North

Freedom Lending has extended its service to include mortgage applications from Scotland. Freedom started lending in England and Wales in May last year. All applications will be processed by Freedom’s existing underwriting teams which are based in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Documentation required to submit mortgage applications can be downloaded from Freedom Lending’s website.

e.surv report healthy activity levels

The latest results from e.surv chartered surveyors have suggested activity levels are returning to those seen in the first half of last year. It said the market dip witnessed in the last quarter of 2004 was a consequence of three main factors: the effect of previous interest rate rises; the traditional season slowdown; and the onset of mortgage regulation from November.

Millennium and Assurant create flexible payment protection range

Millennium Insurance, a UK general insurance (GI) services provider of GI products and support to financial services intermediaries, has appointed Assurant Solutions to create a new range of mortgage, loan and income protection products, designed to meet the needs of individual consumer circumstances.