Why the FSA's reforms make good sense - Money Week

Much fuss this week about the Financial Service Authority's (FSA) review of the mortgage market. The effect of the reforms it proposes, said its critics, will be to lock a million households out of the mortgage market, to force house prices down and to destroy the property ladder ambitions of the nation's first-time buyers...read the full article

Hope grows for buy-to-let market recover - www.aboutproperty.co.uk

The property crash saw buy-to-let mortgages just disappear off the market - as lenders shut their doors or just stepped away from the market...read the full article

Halifax: House prices up 1.6% in September - www.aboutproperty.co.uk

House prices for September increased by 1.6 per cent in value, but were down 7.4 per cent annually...read the full article

No change for interest rates - www.aboutproperty.co.uk

Interest rates have been held at 0.5 per cent yet again, the Bank of England has announced...read the full article

Mortgage Professionals Want BTL Market Regulated - www.aboutproperty.co.uk

Just over half of all mortgage brokers (54 per cent) want the Financial Services Authority (FSA) should regulate the buy-to-let (BTL) market, according to a survey from Exact mortgage experts. Of the 549 mortgage brokers questioned...read the full article