Mortgages

The first half of 2005 saw lenders advance around £9.9bn in new buy-to-let mortgages, showing a marginal increase on lending for second half of 2004, according to new data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

has launched a new conveyancing service for brokers via e-Conveyancer, together with a new buy-to-let application form.

Halifax has announced the launch of a fixed fee conveyancing service as part of the first in a raft of new legal products it says it intends to launch in the near future.

Confidence in the UK housing market remains glued to ‘uncertainty' in line with feelings stretching back four months, new research finds.

Alliance & Leicester and Abbey have pulled out of the government's pilot for the HomeBuy scheme.

Mortgage brokers are failing to comply with regulations concerning the provision of initial disclosure documents, according to a recent mystery shopping exercise.

Mortgage brokers have called for lenders and sourcing systems to be solely responsible for the accuracy of key fact illustrations (KFI) in the latest Association of Mortgage Intermediaries survey.

Two-thirds of mortgage lenders will continue to invest in IT systems over the next two to three years despite heavy investment during 2004 to meet the requirements of the Financial Services Authority, research reveals.

Mortgage Express has admitted experiencing "technical difficulties" with its online mortgage application system forcing it to take the system offline.

The government has opened the bidding process to run its proposed tenancy deposit schemes due to come into effect in October 2006.