Mortgages

New research conducted on behalf of Prudential has revealed customer confidence in lifetime mortgages has increased over the past two years.

Mortgage borrowing based solely on a person's income will become a thing of the past Alliance & Leicester (A&L) claims.

New research focusing on the importance of bringing the large number of empty homes in England back into use has been released by the Halifax.

Obtaining key facts illustrations from lenders is the biggest single problem intermediaries face since the onset of regulation, according to a survey by the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries.

Companies with final-salary pension schemes have been given a little breathing room by the Pension Protection Fund, under details of the risk-based levy for the fiscal year 2006/2007 announced this morning.

The number of buy-to-let investors has increased by 50% since last month as a result of a buoyant rental market and may also be linked to pension reforms regarding sipps, reserach reveals.

The Mortgage Business has announced the appointment of a new director of mortgage operations.

Concerns expressed by Walter Merricks, chief ombudsman at the Financial Ombudsmand Service (FOS), last week that the existence of the FOS could encourage an "unhealthy propensity" among consumers to demand redress for every perceived loss has sparked...

If the government had any hope the economic concerns of the UK electorate were easing, it had a nasty jolt yesterday when not one but two reports highlighted serious concerns about the way in which voters are being left out of pocket by falling annuity...

The government has announced the timetable for implementing housing reform measures which are designed to make renting property more secure for residential tenants.