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New disputes have erupted between clients and IFA firms over endowment mortgage mis-selling compensation calculations, suggests the Financial Ombudsman service.

Residential buy-to-let landlords on average are only carrying 41% loan-to-value gearing a survey commissioned by Paragon Mortgages suggests.

Landowners could be faced with yet another tax if the government decides to follow the recommendations set out in the Barker report published this morning.

The UK housing market is steaming ahead full pelt according to a troika of surveys just out, which will more than offset news inflation as measured by the government's preferred index fell last month.

Long-term fixed-rate mortgages could quickly become a reality for many borrowers if consumer understanding of mortgage products and costs is improved by lenders, David Miles says in his Review published today.

Taking a more coherent and long-term view of the housing market would improve the lot of both homeowners and tenants, if politicians could be persuaded to do so, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says.

YESTERDAY'S PUBLICATION OF an National Audit Office report into the number of people likely to be netted by the proposed £1.4m lifetime contributions limit to pensions will be seized on by chancellor Gordon Brown to push pensions simplification in next...

Property prices in the UK remained robust in January after annual house price inflation rose yet again compared with a fall in the same period last year, government figures show.

Regulation of the mortgage sector after October this year could lead Aviva's surveying services company E.surv to do deals with networks such as Sesame or Inter-Alliance if lenders can be persuaded to relinquish some control over the valuation process....

There still seems to be no slowdown in house price inflation, according to the latest Nationwide house price update, as property values rose another 3.1% in February.