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Does 26% mortgage slump tell...
Banks and building societies have released figures showing mortgage lending in Januaryslumped by 26% compared with the month before. Lenders blame the lending low on a package of factors like cold wea...
Boost for first time buyers...
It has been a tough time for homebuyers over recent years. Since the credit crunch, lenders havetightened their criteria for mortgages meaning that borrowers have needed larger deposits and asqueaky c...
Bank base rate to stay at 0....
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has once again voted to hold the centralbank’s base rate at 0.5 per cent. The rate has now been unchanged for two years – at the...
Groupola misled thousands wi...
Red-faced directors at group-buying site Groupola admit they misled thousands of customers by offering to sell them cheap iPhones when they only had eight in stock. A media campaign promoting the phon...