The Council of Mortgage Lenders has called for the implementation of HIPs to be postponed until full evidence from research and area trials is available.

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Gross lending hit an all-time January high of £26.8 billion according to the latest data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

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A lack of property on the market has driven up house prices for the fifteenth consecutive month, despite cooling demand, says RICS UK Housing Market Survey.

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Nationwide Building Society has released a report showing the effects of interest rate and house price rises on first-time buyers and it’s a double whammy for them - high house prices and rate rises.

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The latest housing market survey from the National Association of Estate Agents has shown a positive overall national picture in the residential housing market for the start of 2007.

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330,000 buy-to-let mortgages, worth a total of £38.4 billion, were taken out in 2006, according to figures released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

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Gross mortgage lending in December fell 14% from November’s all-time high of £33.2 billion to £28.6 billion, but was still the highest December figure on record, according to new data published today by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

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Research from Halifax shows that the average first time buyer (FTB) in London now pays a stamp duty fee of more than £7,500 - a figure £6,000 higher than the UK average of around £1,500.

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The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has welcomed the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decision to maintain interest rates at 5.25%.

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The Council of Mortgage Lenders is disappointed by the Office of Fair Trading’s decision to include mortgage payment protection insurance in its referral of the payment protection market to the Competition Commission.

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