More good news for first-time buyers and home movers from HSBC. The bank is making an additional half a billion pounds of mortgage funding available to home buyers with deposits of 10%. The reason for this additional funding is because there has been an increase in demand from its customers. It is not known what [...]

  Interesting data released by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) shows that lenders have pledged £38bn in new mortgage lending. This is £10bn more than was pledged this time last year. Lending for house purchase now accounts for more new lending than remortgages for the first time since late 2007, the FSA says. In Quarter [...]