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 [...]
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 governor of the Bank of England has said that fears of home repossessions are overdone as UK interest rates are set to remain low.
Sir Mervyn King said conditions were not right for an interest rate rise. He felt that when there was one, there would be a delay in it feeding through to other [...]
60 repossession hotspots are revealed in a report by housing charity Shelter.Corby in the east Midlands is named the place with the highest proportion of homeowners at serious risk of losing the roof over their head.
Shelter said the worst blackspot for repossessions was in Corby, which had the highest rate of “at risk” homeowners – [...]
House repossessions are likely to rise again next year the Council of Mortgage lenders (CML) has warned.
In its updated outlook for the property market, it says repossessions will probably rise from 40,000 this year to 45,000 in 2012.
Mortgage rationing which has depressed UK property sales will stay in force until at least the end of [...]
A scheme aimed at preventing people losing their homes in England proved to be below target but above budget new research finds.
The Mortgage Rescue Scheme enabled not for profit housing associations to buy a stake or all of a home and allow the residents to continue living there by renting it back.
The National Audit Office [...]
UK unemployment fell by 17,000 in the three months to the end of February to 2.48 million- the first drop since last autumn official figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate of unemployment in the UK had fallen to 7.8%.
Unemployment among 16 to 24-year-olds stood at 963,000, with the jobless rate for [...]
House prices in many US cities hit new post bubble lows last year, according to a widely followed market survey.
Prices have been declining across the country since last summer, following the expiry in April of a homebuyer tax credit which temporarily boosted sales.
Eight cities saw prices reach their lowest levels since peaking in 2006-07, with [...]
The finances of private tenants deteriorated in December, with nearly 12% of all rent unpaid or paid late.
The arrears were calculated as part of a monthly survey by the property firm LSL, and were up from total rent arrears in November of 10%.
LSL said unpaid rent now amounted to £276m, the highest level since December [...]
Total UK mortgage lending fell to its lowest level for nine years in 2010 official figures show.
The value of mortgages advanced stood at £136.3bn, which was down 5% from £143.3bn in 2009 and the third year in a row that the figure has fallen.
Lending was just over a third of level seen in 2007, revealing [...]
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