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Nationwide launches two buy-to-let mortgages

15:16 | 06 Jan 2009 | By Michelle McGagh

Nationwide’s specialist lending arm, The Mortgage Works, has launched two buy-to-let products, including a one-year fixed rate home loan.

House prices dip another 2.5% in December

08:28 | 06 Jan 2009 | By Chris Marshall

House prices ended the year with another sharp drop, according to Nationwide. The building society will not predict what will happen in 2009.

House prices to fall at least another 10%, experts predict

10:56 | 24 Dec 2008 | By Tony Bonsignore

But an increasing number of lenders decide against making house price predictions for 2009.

Mortgage approvals continue to fall to new lows

10:13 | 23 Dec 2008 | By Chris Marshall

The value of mortgage loans approved has dropped more than 50% in the last year, as lenders struggled to pass on another cut in the base interest rate.

Hypo Real Estate slashes jobs as it restructures

10:51 | 22 Dec 2008 | By David Campbell

Troubled German lender Hypo Real Estate, which was bailed out by the German government in October, is to lose 40% of staff.

Prestbury set to wind-up its network as cash runs out

12:40 | 18 Dec 2008 | By Richard Harris

Mortgage and GI network Prestbury Financial has been served with a winding-up order after failing to find money to pay creditors.

Credit crunch blow to millions relying on mortgage equity withdrawal

13:45 | 11 Dec 2008 | By Tony Bonsignore

Mortgage equity withdrawal used to fund basic living expenses rather than 'champagne moments', academic study finds.

Alliance Trust will cease new business on Full Sipp

13:52 | 09 Dec 2008 | By Maryrose Fison

Alliance Trust will cease new business on its full Sipp product from Friday, due to concerns over its administration.

Chartered surveyors report 30 year house sale low

08:37 | 09 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

House sales crashed to a 30 year low in November, according to a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors survey. 

Northern Rock cuts 0.5% from standard variable rate mortgages

18:05 | 08 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

Northern Rock has passed on just half of last week’s 1% percentage point cut in the base rate to its standard variable rate mortgage borrowers.  

Commercial property half way through 50% fall

00:01 | 08 Dec 2008 | By Richard Harris

A sharp drop in rents means commercial property values will fall a further 25% over the next two years according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

HBOS fails to pass full rate cut onto all borrowers

09:35 | 05 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

HBOS has refused to pass on the full 1% percentage point cut in the base rate to borrowers on its standard-variable-rate mortgage.

Brown beefs up support for those facing repossession

16:58 | 03 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

Home owners facing repossession will be allowed to put off paying interest on mortgages for up to two years, Gordon Brown revealed today.  

CML: Mortgage rationing is back

14:53 | 03 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

With so few lenders able to provide cash for new home loans mortgage rationing has returned Michael Coogan told the Council of Mortgage Lenders annual conference.

Cable says government confused over next step for banks

15:29 | 02 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

The government is confused about what to do with the partly nationalized banks, says Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor Vince Cable MP. 

King signed HBOS’s death sentence, Buiter says

13:57 | 02 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

Mervyn King signed Halifax Bank of Scotland’s ‘death sentence’ by threatening to withdraw the Special Liquidity Scheme, said former Monetary Policy Committee member Willem Hendrik Buiter. 

FSA says there are too many brokers

12:56 | 02 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

(Update) The number of mortgage brokers and advisers grew to ‘unsustainable’ levels during the house price boom, said the Financial Services Authority’s Jon Pain. 

ING Real Estate to lay off fifth of UK staff

12:32 | 02 Dec 2008 | By David Campbell

ING Real Estate Investment Management is to lay off around 32 UK staff across the board in the lead up to Christmas, equivalent to around one in five of its employees.

Threadneedle and Protego property fund merger completed

15:17 | 01 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

Threadneedle Asset Management has completed the merger of its Property Unit Trust with the Protego UK Property Fund. 

L&G brokers seek protection as new mortgages as common as ‘red pandas’

13:53 | 01 Dec 2008 | By Iain Martin

Legal & General mortgage brokers have refocused on protection as new home loans become rarer than a ‘red panda’. 

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