Mortgages

Evaluate Technologies has completed the purchase of MortgageLinked - Network Data's online mortgage sourcing business.

The FSA today admits its disclosure rules for mortgage advisers are inadequate, but suggests the industry is at least partly to blame for allowing it to introduce one of the mortgage arena's biggest evils - self-certification.

The FSA is considering an RDR-style review of the way mortgage brokers are remunerated, following concerns over commission bias.

New buyer enquiries soared to their highest level in a decade in April, figures show, while the number of homes sold edged higher.

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Aegon have teamed up to announce a series of business protection workshops for members taking place in June.

The FSA has banned a mortgage broker and fined him £101,279 for submitting a fraudulent mortgage application and for concealing a fraud conviction when applying to the FSA for approval as a director.

An entire department of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is at home in quarantine after a colleague returned from the US with probable swine flu.

There should be a greater level of "productive overlap" between the Bank of England and FSA on financial supervision, according to a Government report on regulatory reform.

House prices in Britain fell by 1.7% last month and by 17.7% in the three months to April compared with a year earlier, according to the latest Halifax house price index.

Confidence appears to be returning to the mortgage intermediary market, with brokers stating they expect to do more mortgage business for the first time in over a year, research by Paragon Mortgages has shown.