Story by: Dominic Welling, FTAdviser
Abbey has announced that it will pass on the full 1 per cent base rate cut to all of its variable rate mortgages, including all flexible deals, from the start of January.
Mortgage lenders have been warned by the FSA that they must not make the terms of their tracker deals unfair as the base rate falls.
Exact has launched a new website detailing the full range of services it is providing to companies that hold mortgages on their balance sheet or purchase mortgage assets on the secondary markets.
Depositors in London Scottish Bank plc with funds in excess of £50,000 will have all savings with the bank protected, according to the Treasury.
Almost three quarters of mortgage advisers believe the demand for buy-to-let products has decreased since the credit crunch began, according to a survey by Pink Home Loans.
Cheltenham and Gloucester are temporarily withdrawing all of their tracker products in anticipation of the Bank of England's Base Rate decision tomorrow.
Interest-only mortgage deals are in decline as lenders become increasingly cautious, and borrowers look for security in long term fixed-rate products.
Alliance and Leicester (A&L) is to reduce the rates on its fixed rate mortgage products from Thursday (4 December).
Net mortgage lending is likely to turn negative for the first time ever in 2009, with further, more revolutionary measures needed to kick start the market.
Mortgage packager and distributor Complete Mortgage and Loan Services has launched a range of exclusive 'almost prime' fixed rate mortgages funded by Platform, the intermediary lender of the Britannia.
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