Mortgages

House price inflation fell back slightly in June according to official figures released by the government.

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (Ami) has launched a factsheet on home information packs.

New lenders db Mortgage and edeus have been accused of distorting the mortgage labour market by offering "inflated salaries" to key account managers and business development managers.

The Financial Services Authority has re-opened its consultation paper on Islamic mortgages after it accidentally omitted some of the draft rules from its draft handbook.

Its not often I feel the need to go back and revise something I've written - in fact the urge to do so has never taken hold of me before.

A 'no sale, no fee' home information pack has been launched almost a year before the packs are due to come into force.

edeus is continuing to put all the pieces in place ahead of its launch in September and has been appointed to the lender panels of mortgage network Home of Choice and packager KGB.

The Bank of England's latest inflation report has hinted at the possibility of a further rise in the base interest rate in order to keep inflation under control.

The average first-time buyer raised 3.21 times their income to get a mortgage in June - the highest figure on record - according to new data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

There didn't appear to be a great deal happening last week other than the continuing spat over home information packs and what I suspect have been the largely unsuccessful attempts by the pack's supporters to prove the scheme still has some legs and isn't...