Mortgages

Gross mortgage lending reached an estimated £13.4bn in August, a 10% rise from £12.1bn in August 2010, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

Estate agents and property developers who handle sales of property and land in the UK are to be issued with draft guidance on how to comply with the law.

A mortgage adviser has been banned from conducting regulated activities after he failed to hand over copies of client files ahead of an FSA review.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has proposed extending VAT to nearly all spending - including financial services - following its wide-ranging review into the UK's tax system.

Only fourteen homes were sold per UK estate agent in the three months to August - the lowest total for more than two years, said the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Overall lending for house purchases hit its highest level in almost a year in July, according to the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

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The FSA is to extend the regulation of sale and rent back (SRB) agreements to all providers, in an effort to clamp down on the "considerable" number of unregulated transactions still taking place.

A look at whether Aldermore's 100% mortgage could help revive the FTB market

Specialist lender Aldermore has launched a 100% LTV Guarantor mortgage to help "disenfranchised" first-time buyers get on the housing ladder.