Mortgages

Strong results from Nationwide have contrasted sharply with figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, the British Bankers' Association, and the Building Societies Association - and indeed its own forecasts for 2005 - as to the waning strength of the...

Mortgage intermediary support services provider Paymentcare has launched a new service that allows intermediaries to offload the burden of finding suitable general insurance products for clients, such as MPPI, ASU and buildings and contents insurance....

A final vote in Parliament has put Home Information Packs into law, which could cost house sellers up to £1,000 each.

Participants in the housing market have been hit with a double blow today with calls from charity Shelter to double council tax rates on second homes,while figures from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors suggest sales are down to 1992 levels....

Young people in their 20s are most confident about the prospect of buying residential property within the next two years, suggests Alliance & Leicester Mortgage's moving improving index.

Norwich Union is doubling the IFA commission percentage on its lifetime mortgage business from beginning of next year.

Applying new regulations covering the mortgage sector will cost an estimated £500m compared with FSA estimates of £150m, according to a speech by Building Societies Association chairman John Parker.

Dutch Bank ABN Amro has issued a note on UK house builders predicting a "hard landing" as sales volumes and sales prices drop by at least 8% through the next two years.

Figures published by Charcol suggest the buy-to-let market will see yield recover through next year as rents are predicted to increase.

Destini and Thinc have announced they will merge to create a top five-mortgage firm in the UK.