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View Article  Collapse in mortgage lending intensifies

The collapse in mortgage lending continued last month as banks further tightened the screws on home loans and would-be buyers shied away from the plunging housing market, new figures confirmed today.

The total amount of mortgage lending by banks and building societies last month fell to just £17.7 billion, the ...   more »

View Article  CBI urges interest rate cut

Pressure is building on the Bank of England to reduce interest rates this week after Britain's biggest business lobby called for a sharp cut and City economists warned of "a deeper and longer" recession than initially feared.

Economists at UBS slashed their global growth forecasts in response to "the dramatic ...   more »

View Article  Overseas property owners renting out to cover costs in current economic downturn

The credit crunch is having a major impact on overseas property owners who are finding it more expensive to visit their second homes.

The general economic climate means they are now trying to rent out their property but the rising cost of flights and travel is impacting that market too....   more »

View Article  Mortgage lending figures give some hope

The number of new mortgages agreed by leading banks edged higher last month, raising hopes that the worst of the drought in the home-loans market may have passed.

A total of 22,448 loans for house purchase, rather than remortgaging, were approved by banks during July. Although this was still a ...   more »

View Article  Fast not slow at Northern Rock

February 2008 was a bad month to buy a bank, even if the purchase price was zero and you had £27bn of loans to protect. Given the slump in the housing market, the government's "investment" in Northern Rock, the mortgage lender it had to nationalise after a depositor run last ...   more »

View Article  HSBC latest to cut mortgage rates

HSBC has become the latest mortgage lender to cut its rates following a drop in wholesale funding costs.

The group is reducing its two-year fixed rate mortgage by 0.31%, while longer term fixed rate loans are being cut by 0.16%. It is also cutting the booking fee ...   more »

View Article  Banks are only as safe as houses

As mortgage lenders struggle to shore up their balance sheets, a new crisis may be on the way from the buy-to-let market

House prices are already falling by more than 25 per cent a year. That is the figure the experts at M&G have come up with by extrapolating the ...   more »

View Article  Abbey increases mortgage rates and Egg quits mortgage business

Abbey, Britain’s third-largest lender, increased its mortgage rates last night as Citigroup, the world’s biggest bank, stopped offering home loans to British borrowers.

With the credit crunch continuing to bring misery to homeowners across the country, Citigroup announced that Egg, its internet bank, had halted mortgage business.

The ...   more »

View Article  Mortgages: Nationwide raises rates

Nationwide building society announced today it was increasing the cost of its fixed-rate mortgages by up to 0.3%.

The changes, which come into force tomorrow, wipe out some of the rate reductions made by the lender last month.

The group is increasing the rate of its best two-year fixed-rate mortgage ...   more »

View Article  Buy-to-let: professional investors cash in on the credit crunch

The amateur buy-to-let investor has had his day. Deterred by falling property prices and hampered by a lack of mortgage credit as banks tighten their lending criteria, small players who want to buy one or two homes to supplement their income or bolster their pension are fast disappearing.

At the ...   more »

View Article  Abbey trims some mortgage rates
Abbey, owned by Spain's Santander is trimming some fixed and flexible mortgage rates as it tries to lure new customers in the face of a credit crisis and deteriorating outlook that have seen rivals retreat.

Abbey said on Thursday it would cut its two-year fixed-rate mortgage deals by 0.11 percentage ...   more »

View Article  ECB chief says eurozone may suffer from banking fallout

Europe’s fledgling economic revival could suffer in the coming months as credit conditions among banks are set to tighten, the eurozone’s top central banker said yesterday.

 

Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, said that growth in the eurozone could turn out to be worse than expected ...   more »

View Article  Mortgage prices will rise with lenders cashing in on rival's turmoil, says HBOS chief

Andy Hornby, the boss of Britain's biggest mortgage lender HBOS, predicted yesterday a "fundamental shift" in the lending markets that will leave homeowners paying considerably more for new loans than they have in recent years.

 

"Looking forward, we can already see that mortgage pricing is starting to adjust ...   more »

View Article  Buy-to-let sector remains buoyant

Borrowers took out 171,800 new buy-to-let mortgages, worth £21.2 billion, in the first half of 2007, according to data released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). By the end of June, the number of buy-to-let loans outstanding had reached a record 938,500. The value of outstanding loans totalled £108 ...   more »

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View Article  The rise of the landlord millionaire

Research published by Paragon Mortgages shows the remarkable growth of the buy-to-let business in just ten years.

The average professional buy-to-let investor now owns 12 properties, usually flats or houses in city centres, worth £1.54m.

To qualify as a 'professional', they have to own at least three properties and have ...   more »

View Article  UK property market - instant mortgages!

A number of specialist mortgage lenders are drawing up plans for instant mortgage approvals that would give house hunters access to immediate mortgage offers without even requiring them to obtain a formal property valuation.

The move comes as strong growth in the availability of electronic information accelerates the process of ...   more »

View Article  The Jet-to-Let Bible reaches Amazon bestseller spot before publication

The Jet-to-Let Bible: the secrets of overseas property investment has stormed to Number 1 Bestseller in its category on Amazon, even before a single page has been printed.  It is also in the top 10 of all property investment books, beating such notables as Donald Trump.

 

The book, ...   more »

View Article  Property Investment Courses - April 8 and 9 2006 - London

The next Bewarethesharks.com property investment courses will take place in London over the weekend of 8/9 April 2006.

For further details telephone 0151 482 5525 or visit the property investment courses website at:  www.bewarethesharks.com

 

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View Article  Alliance and Leicester enter the UK Buy-to-Let mortgage market

Alliance and Leicester have announced plans to enter the fast-growing buy-to-let and sub-prime mortgage markets through a tie-up with Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank.

 

Britain’s 8th biggest bank previously shunned these two markets in favour of growing its core prime mortgage business, but it is understood ...   more »

View Article  Happy New Year, US interest rates, UK mortgages, UK Spending
Happy New Year! We very much hope that you and yours had a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas, and that 2006 ...   more »