Lenders
Just 400 homes have been reserved through the government's NewBuy scheme in the nine weeks since its launch, according to the Home Builders Federation (HBF).
A senior Church of England bishop has hit out as the interest rates being charged by short term lenders such as Wonga, describing them as "usurious".
One in every 10 new homes constructed in the UK is now done on a self-build basis.
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National Counties Building Society has become the first building society in the country to offer customers a mobile app for transactions and to view accounts.
Aldermore has lent more than £1bn worth of residential and commercial mortgage funding since first opening its doors for business in the summer of 2009.
Each week we pick the best online comments and letters to the editor on the big stories of the week to give you a flavour of what the industry is really thinking.
Get one while you can - before interest-only mortgages head the same way as the Dodo.
Patrick Bunton, operations and compliance director at London & Country talks about his compliance fears, the FSA's delay of Individual Registration and the problems ahead if solutions aren't found to deal with mortgage prisoners.
Mortgage applicants need to bring twice as much paperwork to the mortgage discussion than before the credit crunch, as lenders become more fraud and Know Your Customer(KYC)conscious than ever before.
As the industry continues to dissect MMR CP11/31, one big question remains: will regulation bring a closer bond between lenders and intermediaries or drive them apart?
Ratings agency Standard and Poor's said UK building societies have survived the financial crisis in better health than the UK banking industry as a whole, in a report.
Rob McCoy, senior product and communications at PMS talks though product choices for victims of the mortgage SVR rises.
Is it becoming harder for landlords to borrow interest-only mortgages as lenders tighten criteria in the residential mortgage market?
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