Mortgages

House prices rose by 1.8% to an average £192,233 in February, according to the latest Halifax house price index.

One recent Saturday morning, I picked up the Financial Times. This is not something I like doing on the weekend - not when I'm out of the office and The Sun's News In Briefs is on offer.

House prices will continue to inflate as three million people plan to buy a new home in the next six months, says a new report.

A website detailing mortgage and financial products compliant with the Islamic faith has been launched.

An IFA is calling on other intermediaries to lobby their MPs and push for the regulation of the commercial mortgage advice market.

Barclays is trying to increase the amount of business it does with intermediaries with the launch of a website designed to help advisers conduct overseas mortgage business.

Larger businesses are failing to cope efficiently with consumer complaints because they are allocating resources to "the race for size" instead, suggests chief ombudsman Walter Merricks.

Coventry Building Society plans to launch a specialist mortgage company which will operate exclusively for intermediaries.

An increase in the traditional rental market could see the buy-to-let sector growing by more than 40% by 2016, claims Alliance & Leicester Mortgages.

If it's Tuesday, then it must be Brussels. "Lifestyles of the rich and shameless," as one industry colleague said to me on hearing that I would be in the seat of European power the next day.