Mortgages

A voluntary code for sale and rent back providers may not be sufficient to protect consumers, warns Key Retirement Solutions (KRS).

Co-operative Bank is to suspend offering its fixed-rate mortgages through intermediaries as part of a promotion aimed directly at consumers.

Connells, the second largest estate agency group in the UK, has chosen the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) to provide all its mortgage qualifications.

Gross lending last month reached the same levels seen at the beginning of 2007, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

The FSA has banned two mortgage brokers for submitting false applications to lenders it was announced today.

Two in three mortgage brokers believe a ‘mortgage RDR' would be a positive development for the market, according to research from the Mortgage Business Expo.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) is concerned some homeowners could lose their homes because they are unaware of the FSA's rules on possession proceedings.

Godiva Mortgages, the intermediary lender of Coventry Building Society, is to withdraw its MOREgage product range from 22 February.

Alliance & Leicester is withdrawing its entire range of PlusMortgage products, combining a mortgage and personal loan, from close of business today.

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