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Allsop Residential's £50m Christmas Sale brings its 2009 to £325m
Allsop's final two day last auction brought some Christmas cheer to the market.
The GMAC-RFC mortgage lender has been fined £2.8m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for mistreating customers who fell into arrears.
Mortgage approvals drop in August
The number of new mortgages approved, but not yet lent, has fallen for the first time in 10 months, according to figures from the Bank of England.
Rents rising as reluctant landlords sell
The cost of renting a home is rising as "reluctant landlords" sell-up in the recovering housing market.
The UK's largest building society believes there is a "reasonable chance" that house prices could end the year higher than they started 2009.
Nationwide Building Society has introduced a mortgage allowing borrowers to take loans worth 125% of the value of the home they are buying.
Mortgage approvals still rising
The property market continued to pick up in May, according to figures from the Bank of England.