mortgages

Sainsbury Bank's head of marketing communications Richard Clark is taking up the mortgage product development role at Scottish Widows left by the departure of Murdo McHardy.

Increasing numbers of first-time buyers are considering mortgages based on more than five times their salary, according to research from Yorkshire Bank.

Figures published by Hometrack suggest strong gains in the London market through January more than offset slow sales elsewhere, pushing the national average price for property up yet again.

Lending figures published by the Building Societies Association and the British Bankers' Association have strengthened the case for hawks at the Monetary Policy Committee.

The majority of mortgage intermediaries offer payment protection policies from more than one provider, according to the last census from the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries.

So, here we are in 2007. My first question is why have no songwriters written a song about this year? I remember the days of ‘Ninety-naughty three…yeah you know me'; ‘Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999'; and ‘Let's all meet up in the year 2000'....

Research published by Heartwood Wealth Management suggests half of City workers intend to spend their entire bonus this season, and most of that on residential property.

A first time buyer couple will have to save up to the equivalent of 81.8% of joint take home pay to be able to afford upfront buying costs on a typical home, according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Small directly authorised mortgage firms need more support from the Financial Services Authority and other large players to stop them falling short of the desired regulatory outcomes, says Sesame.

Tightness in rental yields are partly an inverse result of capital appreciation, so the BTL buyer is always in a win-win situation, argues Jeff Knight, director of marketing at GMAC-RFC.