UCB Home Loans is reducing fixed rates across its entire core range of self-certification and buy-to-let mortgages.

All two-year fixed ...   more »

More than six million people have taken on more debt in the past three years in a bid to get ...   more »

News currently being spread is that the Bank of America is “actively seeking” to get into the UK mortgage lending market ...   more »

Lloyds TSB, which owns Cheltenham & Gloucester and Scottish Widows, has witnessed a 1% fall in its share of the ...   more »

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has taken the same tact as the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) by ...   more »

Government-backed organisation Council for the National Land & Property Information Service (C-NLIS) has welcomed the CML's call for the postponement ...   more »

Platform homeloans has delivered its first same day mortgage offer using AVM technology and its clickdecision online system - and ...   more »

Estate agency Countrywide plc, the owners of national property agents Bairstow Eves and others, has received a possible takeover offer from ...   more »

Seven members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to maintain the base rate at 5.25% in February ...   more »

Alliance & Leicester is to launch a range of deals that combine a mortgage with unsecured lending - competing with ...   more »

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) is calling for the implementation of HIPs to be postponed until full evidence from ...   more »

With the lettings market booming, the Revenue wants a bigger slice of the returns, writes David Budworth
The taxman has ...   more »

Specialist lender The Mortgage Works (TMW) has made a number of changes to its portfolio and reduced the rates on ...   more »

Nationwide Building Society has upped its valuation and homebuyer report fees across the board.

The new fees will take affect ...   more »

Eight out of 10 lenders are now offering maximum mortgage terms in excess of 25 years, while a quarter of ...   more »

Estate agents are being contacted by a number of 'illegal' HIP providers, including several companies based offshore, as the HIPs ...   more »

Portman Building Society is to close nine of the 26 branches it identified last year as underperforming.

The affected branches ...   more »

The buy-to-let market is set to expand further in 2007 with a fifth of those planning to buy a home ...   more »

UK house prices are still rising strongly despite recent interest rate rises, according to the country's biggest mortgage lender, the ...   more »