mortgages

An electronic identification facility has been added to Platform's online decision tool ‘clickdecision' in a bid to end lengthy evidence-gathering procedures for intermediaries.

New research focusing on the importance of bringing the large number of empty homes in England back into use has been released by the Halifax.

Obtaining key facts illustrations from lenders is the biggest single problem intermediaries face since the onset of regulation, according to a survey by the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries.

The number of buy-to-let investors has increased by 50% since last month as a result of a buoyant rental market and may also be linked to pension reforms regarding sipps, reserach reveals.

The Mortgage Business has announced the appointment of a new director of mortgage operations.

IFAs carry out the vast majority of their investments, protection and mortgages business on an independent basis, according to a survey by the Association of Independent Financial Advisers (Aifa).

MEMBERS OF final-salary and public-sector pension schemes should be forced to support the government's pensions lifeboat with an annual levy of £620m, Frank Field, the MP and pensions campaigner, said yesterday, reports the Times .

MORE OF the 15 former directors being sued for £1.7bn by Equitable Life for negligence are expected to settle within the week after the troubled mutual announced yesterday it had reached an agreement with two former directors, says The Times .

UK house prices fell by 0.2% in September while the annual rate of house price growth is 1.8%, the lowest since May 1996, according to a report by Nationwide.

Mortgage consumers have paid over £1bn in unnecessary higher lending charges over the last five years, according to Nationwide Building Society.