Platform, the intermediary lender of the Co-operative Bank, is to relocate its pre-completion and customer care services centres, with up to 90 staff to be affected.

Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced the Government will integrate Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM) and Bradford & Bingley (B&B).

Towergate Financial today revealed mortgage brokerage John Charcol went into administration before it acquired the company.

Gross mortgage lending by building societies jumped 15% to £1.8bn between November and December, figures released by the Building Societies Association (BSA) show.

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has called for reform of the UK's stamp duty system.

Rightmove expects three further months of falls in asking prices following a 1.6% fall in November.

The buy-to-let market has begun to show signs of recovery with the number of deals increasing from the all time low of 179 in September 2009 to 239 today.

Rightmove expects three further months of falls in asking prices following its latest index recording a 1.6% fall in November.

Platform has reduced rates on several fixed and tracker deals for the second time in two months.

Sellers are returning to the housing market but buyer interest is slowing, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK housing market survey.