Mortgages

Andrew Strode-Gibbons, former chief executive and chairman of The Mortgage Lender, has launched a new provider into the market.

The latest entrant to the non-conforming mortgage market has announced two new additions to the sales team.

Lenders are generally supportive of home information packs (Hip) according to a survey published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (Cml).

Mortgage lending has topped the £1trn mark, according the latest figures from the Bank of England released this morning.

House price inflation increased by a mild 0.3% in June, the third month of subdued growth, Nationwide's latest house price index reveals.

Small and medium-sized mortgage firms are still not meeting the Financial Services Authority's disclosure standards.

The Woolwich is to disappear from UK high streets under plans announced yesterday by parent company Barclays Bank.

An oral hearing will be held on the proposed merger of Lambeth Building Society and Portman Building Society.

Mortgage lenders have embraced the Financial Services Association's (FSA) treating customers fairly (Tcf) initiative but brokers have some way to go, the Intermediary Mortgage Lender's Association (Imla) has said.

Home information packs (Hip) could potentially wipe up to £5.7bn in gross domestic product from the UK economy and make almost 100,000 people jobless in the first year of their introduction, an independent report has said today.