Mortgages

Leeds and Mercantile Building Societies have announced they are to merge.

Berkley Berry Birch (BBB) has withdrawn its appeal to the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal and been given 6 weeks to find £11m to fill the capital adequacy deficits of two of its subsidiaries before the Financial Services Authority (FSA) closes...

A lack of new well-designed family homes for sale could undermine government plans to revitalise Britain's inner cities, according to report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).

A Competence Maintenance Tool for mortgage advisers has been launched by the Institute of Financial Services (ifs) and Absolutely Training Ltd.

A cut in interest rates in February look remote today as official figures reveal the rate of inflation dropped back to 2% in December.

Premier Mortgage Service (PMS) and Intelligent Finance (IF) are running a series of roadshows later this month on the subject of offset mortgages and how to sell them effectively.

One quarter of all married couples are finding it hard to get on the housing ladder according to Alliance & Leicester Mortgages.

Annual house price inflation rose by 0.7% in November from 1.8% to 2.5% according to figures from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) released this morning.

The directors of the Professional Mortgage Packagers Alliance (PMPA) have issued a statement revealing a number of members are to leave the organisation.

The Financial Services Authority has hit Aegon with a £750,000 fine for not revealing it had potential regulatory problems as a result of "serious systematic flaws" in mortgage endowment mis-selling complaints handling.