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Santander cuts adviser fees for longer-term mortgages
Mortgage lender Santander extends quality fee assessment
BoE to turn off Funding for Lending tap for mortgages
The mortgage aspect of the Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) is to be discontinued in light of improved market conditions.
RBS Intermediary Partners relaunches on Monday
RBS Intermediary Partners is to return to the mortgage market on Monday, the group has announced.
Stamp duty threatens to pervert Help to Buy effect - CML
The government is undermining its own Help to Buy scheme by imposing a large tax burden on first-time buyers, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has argued.
MPs' stark warning on day of Help to Buy launch
The government's popular Help to Buy mortgage scheme could threaten financial stability if it is mismanaged, a group of MPs has warned.
FCA to consult on mortgage terms after tracker hikes
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to consult the industry on the significance of small print in mortgage contracts in the wake of decisions by banks to increase their tracker rates.
Quarter of homebuyers 'paying at least £7k stamp duty'
More than a quarter of home-buyers in England and Wales are now paying stamp duty at the higher rates of 3% or more, research suggests.
HSBC launches 'all-time low' 1.49% mortgage
HSBC has launched the lowest ever fixed rate mortgage seen in the UK mortgage market with a 1.49% headline rate product.
Paragon pulls fixed-rate buy-to-let range
Paragon Mortgages pull fixed-rate buy-to-let range because of volatile swap rates
FCA begins MMR readiness tests
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has begun tracking intermediaries' and lenders' progress towards implementing new rules following the Mortgage Market Review (MMR).
Thousands of interest-only mortgage borrowers face funding shortfall
Hundreds of thousands of interest-only mortgage borrowers whose deals mature before 2020 are likely to face a funding shortfall, according to estimates produced for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
BoI blitzed ahead of 'unfair' tracker rate hike
The embattled Bank of Ireland (BoI) has come under fresh attack for "unfairly" hiking the interest rates of thousands of borrowers on ‘tracker' mortgages, despite a static base rate.
'Momentum' propels 5% jump in mortgage approvals
Lenders approved 5% more mortgages in March than the previous month to reach a monthly total of £7,646m in loans, according to British Bankers' Association figures.
House prices rise biggest in three years
House prices in England and Wales rose by 0.3% in March, the largest month-on-month increase since March 2010, figures suggest.
Brokers' five biggest bugbears
BUGBEARS
AMI expects bumper year for mortgage advisers
The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) said it expects advisers' share of the mortgage market to increase markedly this year as a raft of changes boost their prospects.
Mortgage lender Accord cuts rates in ten-day sale
Accord Mortgages has launched a ten-day sale on six of its mortgage products.
Number of UK property millionaires breaks 300,000
Burgeoning demand for top-end houses created more than 47,000 new property millionaires in the UK in 2012, taking the total number to 300,142, according to property website Zoopla.co.uk.
MMR: right policy, wrong time
WRONG TIME
The final MMR rules: condensed
MMR: CONDENSED
FSA: mortgage rules will return 'common sense' to market
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published final rules on mortgage selling, convinced they will "put common sense at the heart of the market" and prevent borrowers taking out unaffordable deals.
FSA outlaws non-advised mortgage sales
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has confirmed it is removing the non-advised sales process for mortgages, but has clarified its definition of 'regulated' advice following concerns from lenders.
