Mortgages

Abbey has launched a new tracker mortgage which gives borrowers cash back at least every two years.

UK housing market suffered for the second month in a row as prices slipped in February, suggests latest goverment figures.

More than three in five first-time buyers say 'extra space' is their top priority when buying their first home, reveals Alliance & Leicester.

The price gap between the north and the south of Britain may soon be a thing of the past as the property market has made a leap in the less expensive parts of the country, suggests a survey by Halifax.

The government has suspended links between the NHS and private public partnerships in order to push through a "one-off" sale of land from some 100 NHS sites in order to build up to 15,000 new homes across England.

People put the rate of interest charged ahead of advice as the most important factor in determining which mortgage to choose, research from the CML suggests.

Lender GMAC-RFC has launched an online marketing toolbox for mortgage intermediaries, which targets business improvements amongst users.

The Bank of England looks more likely to raise its base rate on Thursday this week after last week's troika of monthly house price surveys suggested property prices are unstoppable.

Government and industry officials must start planning for the market of the future, including an end to repossessions in favour of new types of loans for helping people onto the property ladder, says Anne Gunther, chairman of the Council of Mortgage Lenders....

The average UK house burst through the £150,000 price level in March, thanks to monthly house price inflation of 2.2%, which took annualised inflation to 18.5%, Halifax says.