Coventry Building Society's head of sales explains how its intermediary offering will evolve after the integration with Stroud & Swindon.

UK asking prices have fallen 1.7% this month as sellers outnumber buyers and the seasonal lull combined to take the heat out of the property market.

First Direct customers are facing a month wait for mortgage interviews after demand soared when it slashed application fees to £99 at the start of July.

You'd never poke a snake with a stick. Unless you're moneysupermarket.com, which did the equivalent with a harassed and crotchety mortgage industry.

Mortgage fraud has nearly quadrupled in value during the first six months of 2010 and is over half of all fraud committed in the UK, reports KPMG.

Professional indemnity (PI) insurance premiums are set to soar, due to the "unregulated" status of some of the industry and the relative ease with which a brokerage can be established, said Tenet Group.

RBS is set to announce the sale of 318 branches to Spain's Santander as the UK lender offloads the former Williams & Glyn's network.

House price growth finally ground to a halt in July as prices fell 0.5% for the first time in five months.

David Jones, a former finance director at majority state-owned lender Northern Rock, has been banned and fined by the FSA for misreporting arrears figures.

Gross mortgage lending rose 15% last month, but experts attribute the increase to "seasonal pick-up".