Total mortgage applications via the Mortgage Advice Bureau for April were up by more than 50% year-on-year, fuelled by a monthly spike of 10%. Brokers MAB are almost entirely based in estate agency offices, with 500 brokers serving some 800 branches...

The Government’s ambitions to boost the self-build sector are being hampered because of mortgage difficulties, a new report has suggested. Lending to the self-build sector fell nearly 70% from £2...

Time is continuing to run out for households living in flood-prone areas. However, while there is no new agreement in sight, the Association of British Insurers has agreed that its members will continue to offer flood insurance for an extra month beyond the end of the current agreement with the Government...

New records have been set in sellers’ asking prices, Rightmove said this mornin. The average asking price of a property new on the market is touching £250,000 for the first time, while in London it has soared past the half a million pound mark for the first time...

Tenet has introduced a compliance-approved social media framework for its advisers. The move follows Tenet’s own corporate entry earlier this year on Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter, Vimeo and Youtube...

Developers who are selling shared-equity homes under the Government’s Help to Buy scheme are advertising them on Rightmove at four-fifths of their real price...

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a new range of shared ownership mortgages with loans available at up to 95% of the share being purchased...

The FCA is to consult firms on how it will gather more ‘big brother’ information about borrowers and their finances once the Mortgage Market Review comes into force next April...