Mortgages

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) made a unanimous decision to cut interest rates at the beginning of December, it was revealed today.

The European Commission has today announced plans to create an integrated EU mortgage market.

Abbey is to increase rates on its range of tracker products by 0.1% due to market movements, it was announced today.

Tenant demand for flats is falling due to an oversupply in the marketplace, according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Mortgages for Business (MfB) has announced it will break into the B2B buy-to-let market in the near year with new opportunities for intermediaries.

City bonuses are likely to be spent on property investments, despite a gloomy outlook in the financial and property markets, according to experts from The Homebuyer Show.

Landlords may be avoiding investing in new properties because of the credit crunch, according to research by Hamptons International Mortgages.

Home Information Packs - or HIPs as they are better known - are finally a reality for all home sales in the UK following their roll-out for one and two bedroom homes on 14 December.

Today's full introduction of HIPs could cause home buyers and sellers to waste money by carrying out two identical local authority searches, according to online conveyancers Convex.net.

CHL Mortgages has been appointed to the lender panel of packaging service Direct Financial Services.