Home owners have to face up to the fact that their properties may not be worth as much now as they were a couple of years ago. But imagine how devastated you’d be to discover that almost the entire value had been knocked off your property overnight.

Precise Mortgages has received approval from the FSA to provide mortgages to homeowners. They are the latest in a series of mortgage lending companies to emerge since the credit crisis.

The British Bankers’ Association recently confirmed that the number of mortgages granted for house purchases in the UK fell again in September. The level of mortgage lending is now at its lowest for ten years.

Interest rates have been kept low over recent months, thanks to the Bank of England setting the base rate at 0.5%. We all know this rate will not remain with us forever but could the base rate actually go lower?

With the prospect of redundancies just around the corner for many public sector workers it must have come as a relief to learn that George Osborne is to continue the government’s mortgage interest help scheme for home buyers.

Barclays Bank recently launched a ‘Great Escape’ remortgage deal that could reduce interest rates for home borrowers.

More than 100,000 home owners’ current mortgage term will expire before the end of the year.

After last month’s 1.1% drop in house prices, asking prices have increased sharply this month.

Young people looking to buy their first property are struggling to save enough money to put down as an initial deposit. Although house prices are falling, the typical deposit requirement in August was 21%.

Moneyfacts, the online portal that compares financial services, published a report last week that suggests that the buy to let market in the UK is improving.

A new report by Simon Kucher and Partners has suggested that we are likely to see a surge in the number of people remortgaging in the near future.

Although fixed rate mortgages have been receiving a lot of attention recently, the interest rate on tracker mortgages has been dropping steadily since the start of the recession.