Mortgages

Housing experts are calling on the government to extend its stamp duty concession for first time buyers (FTBs).

Aegon has been ordered to pay a customer £10,500 in compensation after it told him he would receive double the pension income he was actually due.

Santander is reducing the maximum loan to value on its interest-only residential deals to 50%, in a move it hopes will encourage some borrowers to select a capital repayment mortgage.

Limits on loan-to-value (LTV) mortgages were back on the agenda last night after George Osborne told MPs the Bank of England could intervene to prevent another housing crisis.

Tesco Bank's chief executive, Benny Higgins, has suggested that its long-anticipated launch into the mortgage market will happen by as early as April this year.

The FSA has temporarily shut the sale and rent back (SRB) market after a review found most transactions were either unaffordable or unsuitable and should not have been sold at all.

A Cheltenham & Gloucester mortgage adviser has admitted to helping two brothers fraudulently obtain mortgages worth £700,000 by ignoring discrepancies on their loan applications.

Derek Bradley, CEO of PanaceaIFA.com, laments the FSA’s decision not to pre-approve financial products.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) once again voted unanimously to maintain interest rates at 0.5% and keep the quantitative easing (QE) programme at £275bn in January, despite fears inflation may fall below target levels.

A former magistrate found guilty of a £360,000 mortgage fraud has been spared a jail sentence after a judge ruled her behaviour "wholly uncharacteristic".