Mortgages

The Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme will only apply to owner-occupiers and not to buy-to-let landlords, the Government confirmed as it revealed further details of the initiative.

Mortgage PPI must be excluded from the Competition Comission's investigation into payment protection insurance, the AMI argues.

Abbey has attracted fierce criticism from brokers following its decision to implement a £199 fee for customers who wish to switch to another product.

Home buyer interest climbed for the first time in more than two years this month, figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) show.

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has demanded the Government bring to an end the "conflicting and incoherent" demands being placed on lenders.

HSBC has confirmed it will lend up to £15bn in mortgages to UK homeowners in 2009, an increase of 20% on its lending this year, and almost double what it lent in 2007.

Home sellers must have a confirmed Home Information Pack (HIP) in place before a property is put on the market, Margaret Beckett has confirmed.

Nine in ten investment landlords is currently opting to neither buy nor sell despite falls in both asset values and rental yields, research by the Association of Residential Lettings Agents (ARLA) suggests.

The FSA has frozen the assets of a Northern Ireland-based mortgage broker after he claimed he could not afford to compensate customers.

Monetary policymakers should be following the Crosby Report's recommendation to restart the mortgage finance markets rather than focusing on cutting interest rates, according to the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI).