Mortgage lenders have raised concerns about potential changes to the way support is given to those struggling to pay their mortgage.The government is reviewing the Support for Mortgage Interest Scheme, where homeowners who lose their jobs may receive financial help.
It says the programme, which costs £400 million a year, is unsustainable.
The Support for Mortgage Interest [...]
House prices continued to “tread water” in September – rising by 0.1% compared with the previous month the mortgage lender Nationwide said.This left the average price of a home 0.3% lower than a year earlier, at £166,256, the building society said.
Prices for the three months to September compared with the previous quarter were unchanged.
Market turmoil [...]
House prices fell by 1.2% in August compared with the previous month with property values expected to remain stable, Halifax said.The lender, now part of nationalised Lloyds Banking Group, said that the average home was 2.6% lower in value than a year ago at an average of £161,743.
The monthly drop was the first recorded by [...]
Low interest rates have kept the level of UK mortgage arrears and home repossessions steady according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).A total of 9,000 homes were repossessed in the second quarter of the year – 100 fewer than in the previous three months, the CML said.
The CML has predicted that a total of [...]
The number of mortgage borrowers in negative equity – where their loan is bigger than the value of their house – is 827,000, lenders have calculated.The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said the figures, for the first quarter of 2011, suggest the problem is not as great as in the early 1990s.
Then, an estimated 1.6 [...]
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