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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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Lehman licks wounds on UK home loans
Lehman Brothers' plan to sell $4 billion (2.3 billion pounds) of British mortgages as part of a survival strategy follows an aggressive bet on riskier UK mortgages in the last three years that has misfired.
11 Sep 2008 |
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Councils seek powers to offer mortgages
Councils are seeking greater powers to offer home loans in the hope of boosting the struggling housing market and preventing the collapse of regeneration projects in towns and cities.
26 Aug 2008 |
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Nationwide hikes fixed rate mortgages
Nationwide, Britain's second largest mortgage lender, said on Monday it would hike the cost of some of its mortgages by up to half a percentage point, just a month after it cut rates to lure in new customers.
17 Jun 2008 |
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Halifax latest to reprice mortgages
Britain's biggest mortgage lender Halifax is poised to re-price its mortgage range amid the ongoing fallout from the credit crunch.
12 Jun 2008 |
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RBS cuts mortgage rates to lure customers
Royal Bank of Scotland is trimming up to 0.3 percentage points off new mortgages to boost market share, taking advantage of its rivals' retreat in the face of the credit market crisis and a deteriorating housing outlook.
30 Apr 2008 |
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Abbey have over 15% mortgage market share
Abbey has taken 15.9 per cent of the mortgage market in the UK in the first quarter. According to Santander, the Spanish owner of Abbey, the company's net lending was £2.9 billion in the first quarter, up from £1.3 billion in the previous year.
29 Apr 2008 |
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Bank eyes 50 bln pounds mortgage rescue
The Bank of England will next week announce plans to swap 50 billion pounds of government bonds for UK bank mortgages in an effort to break a lending squeeze gripping the home loan market, the BBC said on Friday.
19 Apr 2008 |
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Abbey axes 100 percent mortgage offer
Abbey will this week stop offering 100 percent mortgages, joining all its major rivals in requiring at least some deposit from borrowers.
07 Apr 2008 |
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Halifax reforms mortgages
Mortgage lender, the Halifax has said that from Monday it will offer lower rates to buyers who can pay bigger deposits. Halifax said that buyers who give a 25 per cent deposit would be able to get 0.1 per cent cheaper deal on their mortgage.
31 Mar 2008 |
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