Best uk mortgages

Best uk mortgages

Deposits for the best mortgage deals have soared by 43 per cent since the start of the credit crunch a year ago, figures show. A typical homebuyer in England and Wales now needs to stump up £37,119 as a deposit to qualify for the most competitive ...

Borrowers need £37,000 deposit for best mortgages - Times Online

Abbey, the biggest mortgage lender, has cut its two and three-year fixed rates by up to a quarter of a percentage point. Its best two-year fix is now at 5.89% with a £995 fee. C&G cut its fixed rates by up to 0.31 of a point with the best deals ...

Mortgages & homes - Mortgage features - This is Money

BIG-NAME mortgage lenders have been accused of employing underhand moves to boost their profit margins – raising their loan fees by as much as three times the level they were a year ago. HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Abbey are among the ...

Lenders rake in millions in fees - Times Online

The American housing market may slowly be turning the corner after 18 months of gloom, with test data showing that the rate of monthly house price declines slowed markedly in June. Data from the respected Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index showed ...

Case-Shiller data suggests worst may be over for American housing ... - Daily Telegraph

Homebuyers and anyone remortgaging with a decent deposit got a welcome boost last week as a price-cutting war broke out among lenders. First-time buyers will still struggle to get near the best rates but, if you have the capital, there are incentives ...

New loan rate war makes it high time to remortgage - Guardian Unlimited

House prices in the United States are still falling at a record pace, and sales of new homes remain anaemic, according to the latest data. Economists pored over the monthly survey of metropolitan house prices, which showed a record 15.9 per cent ...

US house prices still falling but the 'worst has passed' - The Independent

Mortgage approvals for house purchases last month fell 65% compared to a year ago, according to latest figures, and remain near the record low set in June. The British Bankers' Association (BBA) said the number of mortgages approved in July totalled ...

New mortgage approvals down 65% on last year - Guardian Unlimited

Almost the entire region of Western Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltics is on the cusp of fully fledged recession, raising fresh fears about the health of Europe's banking system. Germany's IFO confidence index of future business crashed in July to ...

Denmark's turn for a Northern Rock headache - Daily Telegraph

His colleagues in the housebuilding industry won't thank him for his honesty, but Taylor Wimpey's chief executive, Pete Redfern, hit the nail on the head yesterday in admitting there is little the Government can do to fix the housing market. While ...

David Prosser's Outlook: The real victims of the housing market crisis ... - The Independent

THE number of Stoke-on-Trent residents facing eviction has rocketed as rises in the cost of living start to bite. And charities are worried people struggling to pay mortgages or rent could be made homeless as jittery lenders and landlords clamp down ...