housing market Archive

  • Green Shoots in the UK Economy and Markets?

    Green Shoots in the UK Economy and Markets?

    There’s been a lot of positive talk in the UK housing market over the last few days or so……..Onward Christian Soldiers…..Relaxation of the credit stanglehold?Total net lending to individuals rose by £0.3 billion in October. The twelve-month growth rate fell to 0.7%, and the three-month...

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  • Recession still to bottom out as UK Insurance Industry Suffers

    Recession still to bottom out as UK Insurance Industry Suffers

    The pundits in the housing markets often seem to be singing from a different songsheet when it comes to what’s really happening in the UK economy. One minute we hear that repossessions have dropped in comparison to the first quarter of 2009, and that house...

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  • Government Loans for First Time buyers

    Government Loans for First Time buyers

    Those self serving suits from around Threadneedle Street who we saw exposed in Channel 4′s excellent documentary on non-executive banking directors, have been racking their brains recently on how to get the first time buyer market moving. Laughing into their cafe crappe they must be...

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  • Tenants at risk as Landlords are repossessed

    Tenants at risk as Landlords are repossessed

    Questions have been asked in the House of Commons regarding tenants who have been paying their rent and fulfilling all their other obligations but who nonetheless find they are at risk of losing their home. What protection do they have? We sympathise with tenants who...

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  • House Prices tumble as sales dry up

    House Prices tumble as sales dry up

    New data from Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has shown that house prices have fallen to a 30-year low over the last 3 month period and the number of surveys fell to the lowest since it began in 1978, with sales declining from 11.5...

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  • Nationwide gives false hope to housing market prices

    Nationwide gives false hope to housing market prices

    U.K. house prices dropped 1.7% in September compared to the same point a year ago, according to data compiled by the Nationwide Building Society. The monthly fall means that house prices fell 12.4% on annual basis, thought to be a direct knock on effect from...

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