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The FCA has banned two former directors of a mortgage company after the submission of mortgage applications containing false and misleading information ...

National Conveyancing specialists Convey Law have re-affirmed their position as one of the UK’s leading Conveyancing companies by joining the Conveyancing Association...

Consumer watchdog Which? this morning issued an eleventh-hour call for the Bank of Ireland to “do the right thing”...

Two people who built up a £4m buy-to-let empire on fraudulent mortgages have been sent to jail...

Saffron Building Society has launched a three-year fixed rate deal without any early repayment charges, across a number of its Special Situations mortgage products...

The number of house sales has fallen, the Land Registry has reported. From October to January, there were an average of 54,810 transactions per month, compared with 56,556 for the same period a year earlier...

A house price increase this month has been fuelled by a shortage of stock – and by the roaring London market, which is now back to the top-of-the-boom levels of 2007...

With less than a month to go, the Manchester Mortgage Business Expo has been cancelled. The mortgage industry event was to have taken place at the Lancashire County Cricket Club on May 23...

A round table event is being held for mortgage advisers this Wednesday. The event, being hosted by Paradigm Mortgage Services, is open to all mortgage advisers and will focus on new business opportunities...

Tenet has voiced its support for the creation of a dedicated protection trade body. It says good reasons include the recent shift to diversification within adviser business models to include more protection business...

After listening once more to the feedback from our brokers regarding; commission and criteria we have some further positive enhancements to the 1st Stop Homeloans product suite...

There has been a 73% surge in the number of five-year fixed rate mortgage deals on offer in the past year...

A mortgage company has reported the most completions in a month since the start of the recession. Crystal Mortgages’ first-quarter figures have also eclipsed those for the same period last year...

Santander’s pre-tax profits slumped 24% in the first three months of the year to £240m, as it deliberately slashed its share of the gross mortgage lending market...

Linear Financial Solutions, part of the LSL Group, says it has had its best month for mortgage volume in March since September 2009 – thanks to NewBuy...

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Mortgage approvals by high street banks for house purchase nudged up in March to stand at 31,227. The news came as the Government announced extending its Funding for Lending Scheme, but diverting it towards small businesses – a move which one critic described as risky for the mortgage market...

The collapse of the deal between Co-operative Group and Lloyds has been described as “very bad news” for consumers...

Income protection provider Holloway Friendly has upgraded its IT systems to make quotations and applications quicker and easier for advisers...

Bridging company Hope Capital is to offer a 1.5% procuration fee to all brokers on bridging cases completed before the end of May...