Mortgages

We talk to BMA Young Achiever of the Year, Countrywide's Carrie Cotter

Only one in ten mortgage mis-selling cases brought by claims management firms are upheld by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).

Sterling has dropped against the dollar after the latest MPC minutes revealed no calls for a rate hike and opened the door to further QE.

House sellers are being forced to cut asking prices by over £18,500 or 7.1% on average, according to Zoopla research.

A mortgage broker has been banned and fined £106,499 for inflating incomes and providing false employment details for his clients on mortgage applications.

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The figures that reveal a different market to that seen by borrowers

A former financial adviser has been named as one of the ten most wanted fraudsters from across the UK by Crimestoppers for a multi-million pound mortgage application fraud scheme.

House prices rose just 0.2% in July, as the combination of low demand and slowly increasing housing supply continued to kept values flat, according to Nationwide.

A senior surveyor who took gifts worth £1m for her part in a £10m mortgage scam for London properties has been jailed for six years.