Mortgages

Brokers are still the first port of call for borrowers as mortgage lending via intermediaries rose to 62% of all property finance in Q1 this year.

House purchase lending increased 45% year-on-year in March, while remortgaging fell 29% annually, according to the CML.

The number of mortgage borrowers in arrears and properties repossessed both fell in Q1 2010.

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) is further tightening the criteria it applies to its Halifax-branded interest-only mortgages and scrapping them completely on homeloans over £500,000.

Intermediaries pose a "far greater" fraud risk to the mortgage market than lenders' advisers, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) says.

Average UK property prices fell marginally by 0.1% in April, leaving the typical home worth £168,202.

The Building Societies Association (BSA) has elected Hanley Economic Building Society chief executive David Webster as its chairman for 2010/11.

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Home of Choice is to announce the new owner of the network tomorrow, with LSL Property Services understood to be the preferred bidder.

The FSA has banned three mortgage brokers from working in regulated financial services and fined a fourth £17,500 for mortgage fraud and advice failings.