Mortgage lending is still running at very low levels according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
There were just 32,300 mortgages arranged with house buyers in February – 8% more than in January but still 12% down on the same month a year ago.
Recent surveys have shown that house prices have changed very little in [...]
UK homeowners paid off more of their mortgage borrowings last year than they had done in any other single year official Bank of England figures show.
Mortgage borrowers paid back more than £24 billion to lenders in 2010, the highest since records began in 1970.
They returned £7 billion in the final three months of the year, [...]
A total of £9.5 billion was advanced during the month, broadly in line with January’s one year low of £9.48 billion, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said.
The lenders said that although it had seen a seasonal pick-up in interest from property-buyers during the past few weeks, demand was weaker than a year ago, despite the [...]
Local communities in England which agree to host a windmill farm will receive payments from the government.
Renewable UK, the renewable energy trade association, will launch a “wind energy industry guarantee” that will average £20,000 per year per project.
With the average life of a windmill farm estimated at 20 years, this could add up to [...]
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 [...]
Thousands of people investing their retirement savings were given poor advice by Barclays, which must now pay them sixty millions pounds in compensation.
The bank has been fined £7.7m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and will pay up to £60m compensation to customers of two investment funds.
One in seven of the 12,000 investors complained about [...]
Re-mortgager asks what will happen to house prices in 2011?
There is quite a divergence of views about whether house prices will fall further, stabilise or even rise during the coming 12 months.
In 2010 the property market took a downward turn after a brief recovery in prices that had started in 2009 ran out of steam.
The [...]
58% of Americans expect the US housing market to stay depressed for two or more years, a new survey has suggested.
Even worse- in the survey, 48% of respondents said they would consider walking away from their mortgage if they were in negative equity – up from 41% since May.
The findings by property websites Trulia and [...]
The UK housing market seems set to remain in the doldrums for some months yet, with the latest Bank of England figures on home loans showing few signs of life. New statistics on consumer confidence are alos falling.
Some 47,185 mortgages were approved by banks and building societies in October, an eight month low.
This is down [...]
Further to the Re-Mortgager post last week- House prices set for prolonged downturn the research also indicates that there will be big gains for a minority of homeowners.The divergence between housing markets in different regions is much more pronounced than many expected. That may get worse because of the austerity measures introduced by the coalition [...]
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