mortgage

Hamptons International has today announced the appointment of Jonathan Cornell as managing director of its mortgages division.

Convex Conveyancing has today announced the appointment of Paul Marks as chairman after the company reported a significant increase in sales.

Mortgage brokers should take a "rigorous and industry respected" qualification in treating customers fairly after it emerged two firms had been fined and another handed a public censure by the FSA for management failings.

More than two million people are expected to borrow at least four times their salaries within the next three years to get on the property ladder, research suggests.

Almost half a million homeowners missed a monthly mortgage payment in the last six months, according to MoneyExpert.com.

The number of mortgage approvals rose in May despite rising interest rates and house prices, according to the Bank of England.

The buy-to-let market has seen a 30-fold increase in the ten years that Tony Blair was Prime Minister, according to research from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Homebuyers should consider the cost of valuation fees - a fee that is often forgotten amongst the myriad of home buying costs - when choosing a mortgage, according to Moneyfacts.co.uk.

Interest rate rises have caused growth in mortgage lending to slow, but the Council of Mortgage Lenders still expects record levels of lending during 2007.

Lehman Brothers' Mortgage Capital Business has announced Paul Hunt will join the firm as director of marketing.