UK mortgage lending rose in March when the amount lent in home loans rose by 21% compared with the previous month lenders have said.However the increase came after a dip in lending for home loans at the start of the year the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) figures show.
There was a 2% drop in gross [...]
Mortgage interest rates have been held at a record low for 25 months now- should you fix your rate or stick on a variable rate?
With the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voting on interest rates many think that it is a question of when, not if, rates will go up.
Millions of homeowners will be [...]
Bank of Ireland has seen its net loss for 2010 fall to 609m euros, (£544m) after negotiating debt write downs from its bondholders.The results came as a surprise to analysts, who had forecast at least double those losses in line with the wider problems in Dublin’s banking sector.
Bank of Ireland’s 2009 loss was almost three [...]
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, [...]
Savers and borrowers could benefit by locking in the best interest rates for more than a year.
New research showed that UK interest rates offered on relatively short-term fixed-rate bonds have been rising since August 2010.
However, they have been increasing from an all-time low of 2.52% for a one-year bond.
The movement signals an expectation of a [...]
A long awaited banking agreement with the largest UK banks on lending, pay and bonuses has been announced entitled Merlin.Under Project Merlin, banks will lend about £190bn to businesses this year – including £76bn to small firms – curb bonuses and reveal some salary details of their top earners.
The Bank of England will monitor whether [...]
Two thirds of those asked in a UK survey found financial matters too confusing to make the best choices with their money.
The results of the have raised concerns about financial know-how at a time when family budgets are being squeezed.
Some 80% of those asked were unsure which benefits and allowances they were entitled to.
Others struggled [...]
Mortgage holders are continuing to pay down their loans, according to the Bank of England’s latest quarterly figures.
Figures for the third quarter of the year show borrowers cut their collective debt by £6.1bn.
It is the 10th quarter in a row that homeowners have put more money into their home than they took out.
Collectively, those with [...]
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 [...]
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