Mortgages

The Council of Mortgage Lenders says business standards offered by estate agents are currently so great that it would be wrong for the government not to impose regulation on the industry.

Introducers passing on mortgage business leads will not be required to be regulated under the FSA regime in certain cases but all other types of regulated financial business will require introducers to hold FSA authorisation, according to guidance from...

Moves to liberalise and harmonise the internal market in financial services are not benefitting consumers because of a lack of communication between those making the rules and those affected, says APCIMS chief executive Angela Knight.

Mortgage lending in the UK shows little sign of slowing down as the Council of Mortgage Lenders says lending in March may have hit a record high.

The fast rising age of the average first time buyer in the UK means a sharp increase in the number of people carrying mortgage debt into future retirement, in turn fuelling a future boom in equity release sales, research published by Prudential suggests....

The UK property market is heading for new highs as annual house price inflation hit its highest pace since October 2002, suggests lthe atest survey by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Bankhall has just confirmed it is buying Norwich Union's Mortgage Club, giving the intermediary services firm a potential membership of 43,000 brokers.

UK property prices continue to defy gloomy predictions of a pending collapse as a new report reveals prices have so far this year risen twice as fast as last year.

The UK property market remains robust and is unlikely to suffer a fall despite recent predictions made by some 'doomsters', says the Centre for Economics and Business Research.

Abbey for Intermediaries is to launch an awareness campaign into offset mortgages, to try and help intermediaries clear some of the fog surrounding these new products.