Mortgages

Where's our boom gone?

Inadequate advice on equity release options for 'asset-rich, income-poor' pensioners could lead to mis-selling of the products to a potentially vulnerable group, claims research from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR).

Members of Lambeth Building Society have approved a merger with Portman Building Society with an almost unanimous vote.

Universal and Newcastle Building Societies are to merge it has been announced.

A factsheet to assist mortgage intermediaries in advising clients who are thinking of buying property abroad has been developed by the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (Ami).

The Housing Corporation is dropping the restrictive rules governing deputy prime minister John Precott's, key worker housing scheme, after continued criticism and the admission last month in the House of Commons that it had failed to attract enough policeman,...

Murdo McHardy, head of product development and marketing at Scottish Widows Bank , reveals the financing and legal implications of purchasing a second home in Spain.

Distributor Openwork has expressed concerns that mortgage lenders are not always consistent in their underwriting and processing of self-certification cases.

Half of second-time buyers are struggling to make the next move up the property ladder research from Abbey suggests.

The majority of building society chief executives believe house price inflation will run at between 4 and 5% by the end of 2006, according to a survey conducted by the Building Society's Association (BSA).