Mortgages

The government has announced the timetable for the implementation of Home Information Packs (Hip) in order to ensure they are successfully launched on 1 June 2007.

UK interest rates would have to roughly double for the country's personal debt levels to cause an early 1990s-style financial crisis, says lender Alliance & Leicester.

Confidence in the housing market is now back at levels last seen in early 2004, according to property search website, propertyfinder.com.

Why is it that when politicians claim to put forward a policy there is usually very little detail?

Deutsche Bank and Vertex have formed a strategic partnership to help launch db mortgages, the new specialist mortgage lender owned by Deutsche Bank, into the intermediary mortgage lending market.

KGB Packaging has joined the Professional Mortgage Packagers Alliance (PMPA).

UK annual house price inflation stood at 4.3% in January, up from 2.9% in December the latest government figures reveal.

British homeowners are paying £60m more stamp duty despite last year's rise in the exemption threshold, according to research by Portman Building Society.

The Conservative Party has today said it intends to fight the introduction of Home Information Packs (Hips) next year into the house buying process.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committe (MPC) has once again voted to maintain interest rates at 4.5%.