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Bank rate may rise later tha...
Analysts’ expectations of a Bank of England rate rise have been pushed back – swayed byspeculation over how the current crisis in Japan will affect the global economy. At the end of last w...
Hard up Wills and Kate can o...
What chance do first time buyers really have when a royal couple looking for a home could only qualify for a mortgage of £115,000? If soon-to-be-married Prince William and Kate Middleton had to...
Shadow chancellor calls for...
Labour’s shadow chancellor Ed Balls has called on the government to levy a further £2 billion taxon bankers’ bonuses – but the government has said it has no plans to announce s...
Mortgage lending falls sharp...
The housing market got off to a slow start in 2011 according to new figures from the Council ofMortgage Lenders (CML). Just 28,500 home loans were approved during January, a fall of 29 percent on Dece...