Mortgages

Bank of Scotland has been unfairly double billing customers who fell behind on their mortgages, a High Court judge in Belfast has ruled.

The second part of the Help to Buy scheme will be available from next week after the government brought forward the launch date by three months.

Castle Trust, the investment and mortage business designed to help unlock the housing market, has been notified the FSA is set to authorise the business.

Pimco's Bill Gross says there will be no housing-led recovery in the US without Government support.