Mortgages

Fixed rate mortgage saw their popularity reach a year high in June attracting 48% of new borrowers, according to CML data.

You'd never poke a snake with a stick. Unless you're moneysupermarket.com, which did the equivalent with a harassed and crotchety mortgage industry.

Three people have been sentenced to a total of almost ten years in prison for defrauding mortgage lenders of £4.6m.

Melanie Bien asks if banks' recent results are supported by underlying lending figures?

House prices fell for the first time in a year last month, as the supply of properties reached a three year high while demand dwindled, according to RICS.

Mortgage giant Freddie Mac has asked for $1.8bn in assistance from the US Government after it suffered its fourth consecutive quarterly loss on continued bad home loans.

The whole of Savills Lending Solutions' workforce has been placed into consultation.

Mortgage fraud has nearly quadrupled in value during the first six months of 2010 and is over half of all fraud committed in the UK, reports KPMG.

Neil Munroe, external affairs director at Equifax, offers some tips for brokers to help clients produce a successful mortgage application.

Lloyds chief executive Eric Daniels says the banking giant "did the country a great service" in taking over stricken lender HBOS last year.