Mortgages

Advisers may have lost out on up to £330m over the past five years by failing to refer conveyancing services when making residential mortgage sales, according to Easier2Move.

Landlords may be leaving themselves at risk of substantial losses by not having specially designed insurance policies for rented property, according to Paragon Mortgages.

Mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley has seen its share price slide this morning despite formally denying rumours it is planning a rights issue.

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has launched a mortgage sourcing service available to UK landlords called NLA Mortgages.

Accord Mortgages has withdrawn its entire range of prime fixed rate and tracker products, with a new range to be launched on Monday.

Net mortgage lending in 2008 could reach half the level achieved last year, according to Steven Crawshaw, chairman of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

Orbiter, a new online mortgage sourcing and processing service, is to begin a formal broker pilot next week.

The Bank of England and the Debt Management Office should take co-ordinated action to help ease the liquidity crisis, according to New Star's chief economist Simon Ward.

Mortgages for Business has offered a lifeline to brokers who have pipeline cases with The Mortgage Operation (TMO), which has gone into administration.

GE Money Home Lending has cut rates on it buy-to-let loans, saying it wants to strengthen its presence in the market.