Building society mortgages

Building society mortgages

The housing downturn is likely to trigger a wave of mergers among building societies, as bad debts from mortgages rise and profits from lending fall, according to a senior analyst at KPMG. The KPMG Building Societies Database 2008, due out this week ...

KPMG predicts building society mergers - Financial Times

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PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - August 26 - Forbes

A little more than a year ago Siobhan McAleer decided to launch her Mortgage Shop brokerage brand in the Republic of Ireland. The company, which she founded as a 24-year-old in 1992, had already established itself north of the border as Northern ...

Mortgage Shop prepares to bridge divide - Financial Times

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

Most parents are missing out on saving more than £21,000 for their child's future, according to new research by Nationwide building society. Parents can invest up to £1,200 a year tax-free in a child trust fund (CTF) to build up a nest egg that ...

In brief - Tiscali

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 ...

Families face losing homes - This is Sentinel

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank will announce changes to the rules governing its money-market auctions in coming weeks to head off the risk of abuse by financial institutions, council member Yves Mersch said. ``At the margins there ...

Mersch Says ECB to Change Collateral Rules Soon (Update2) - Bloomberg

The position of the Chamber of Commerce on rent reform is one based on social justice for property owners and freeing young prospective families of the burden of massive mortgages in an overinflated property market. Chamber president Tancred Tabone ...

Chamber of Commerce position on rent reform: Maltese couples €1.75bn ... - Malta Independent Daily

Share THERE are strong indications that the main banks and building societies are going to sit on their hands and do nothing in response to the mortgage challenge from National Irish Bank . NIB has thrown down the gauntlet to the main mortgage ...

OPINION : Little rush to match cheaper NIB mortgage - Independent

A generous European who never set foot in America, much less Berkshire County, was responsible for a swelling in the Jewish population here starting just before 1900. The 1887 death of his son spurred Maurice de Hirsch (1831-1896), a wealthy Bavarian ...