Alliance & Leicester (A&L) replaced HSBC as the UK’s most consistently competitive mortgage lender during the final quarter of 2009.According to research by mortgage search software firm, Evaluate Technologies, A&L surged ahead despite having failed to register any of its home loans in best buy tables during the previous quarter.The lender, which is to be [...]

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This seems like a rather spurious accolade. A&L have not been in the Best Buys (top 5 mortgages) in any of the financial comparison websites. Are they consistently providing relatively poor products?

I am struggling to see the relevance of this press release from Evaluate Technologies.