Plans to place loan-to-income restrictions on mortgage lenders have been announced by the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC).
Banks and buildings societies are likely to make fresh cuts to mortgage rates, according to the Bank of England (BoE).
Phil Whitehouse of The Mortgage Alliance on how brokers can mitigate the impact of dual-pricing
Research from NatWest Intermediary Solutions suggests 67% of brokers are optimistic they will write more mortgage business in 2010 than last year.
Mortgage approvals declined in February for the third consecutive month, Bank of England figures reveal.
Aldermore is designing its mortgage range specifically to help self-employed and creditworthy borrowers who are being turned away by lenders.
Mortgage approvals dropped by almost 10,000 in January, according to the latest monthly figures from the British Bankers' Association (BBA).
Gross mortgage lending fell 32% in January compared with the previous month to hit its lowest monthly total for 10 years, figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) show.
The average loan-to-value (LTV) on new mortgages hit 70% in December for the first time since April 2009, according to figures from the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB).
The number of UK mortgage approvals hit more than 42,200 in October, the highest since January last year, the British Bankers' Association (BBA) says.