Mortgages

The Tenet Group's Lifetime Insurance Mortgage Experts is rolling out a series of roadshows to help mortgage and insurance intermediaries capitalise on pending regulation.

A full decline in UK house prices has been registered by the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors for the first time in a year as house price activity dropped 11% in the three months to August.

Research from Landlord Mortgages suggests the typical demographic of a buy-to-let landlord is of a married couple with at least one partner earning well in excess of national average wages.

Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, Rightmove and the Building Societies Association suggest the housing market is definitely cooling.

Parents are prepared to pay an average 25 basis points, or 0.25% more for a house if their child stands a chance of entering a primary school with a 1% better pass rate on Key Stage 2 exams.

Research from consultant Datamonitor suggests a growing trend of UK first time buyers seeking cheaper investment property abroad in the hope of making sufficient returns to afford a deposit on a UK home.

Research by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors suggests some £200bn worth of residential and commercial property across the UK is at risk of coastal or river flooding.

Continued strong rates of house price inflation in England's regions and the home countries has offset falls in house price inflation in the nation's capital, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister says.

The Chartered Insurance Institute is launching a new division of the professional body aimed specifically at mortgage brokers and advisers.

The Bank of England is unlikely to raise base interest rates again this week, as the latest statistics from Woolwich reveal confidence in the housing market is still falling.