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• Endowment meltdown: Just one in 100 will pay off the mortgages they were meant to cover
  

  Published 15th Jul 2009

  More than three million home-buyers have been warned that their endowment policies are unlikely to pay off their mortgages

• Court ruling: Renewal fees 'unfair'
  

  Published 13th Jul 2009

  News that estate agents Foxtons has been defeated in the High Court over renewal fee issues will be a source of celebration for many with a bone to pick with the agent and its measly little minis - but it is also something of a landmark victory in a larger sense - as it spells out new rules for how contracts are written and what is included in the small print..

• A quarter of homeowners cannot get a mortgage
  

  Published 09th Jul 2009

  Nearly one-in-four borrowers believe they are unable to secure a mortgage because of stricter lending criteria imposed by banks and building societies, a survey has found

• 'Foolish' mortgage charges are forcing borrowers further into arrears, warns Lord Myners
  

  Published 07th Jul 2009

  Struggling homeowners are being pushed further into loan arrears by punitive charges from lenders, Lord Myners warned today

• Haunted by the ghost lenders behind string of repossessions
  

  Published 30th Jun 2009

  Of the 250 home repossession orders granted in the courts every day - where judges give companies the right to seize properties where the owner has fallen behind with the mortgage - a disproportionately high number of cases are brought by 'ghost' lenders

• Haunted by the ghost lenders behind string of repossessions
  

  Published 29th Jun 2009

  Of the 250 home repossession orders granted in the courts every day - where judges give companies the right to seize properties where the owner has fallen behind with the mortgage - a disproportionately high number of cases are brought by 'ghost' lenders

• Deposit hike for Barclays' new mortgage customers
  

  Published 24th Jun 2009

  Barclays has increased the minimum deposit it asks new customers to put down to get a mortgage