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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...
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...
ISA interest rate war hots u...
The deadline for investment into an Individual Savings Account (ISA) is just a matter of weeks away.Brits are allowed to invest up to £5,100 in an ISA before 5 April and financial institutions h...