Interview with Melanie Bien, Head of PR and Director of Savills Private Finance mortgage brokers.
By Emma-Lynn Donadieu - Sunday, 20th April 2008
With house prices poised on the brink of collapse and the best mortgage deals being stripped out of the market, now is definitely not the time to go on holiday for Melanie Bien.
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