Buyers rush to beat stamp duty deadline

Posted by admin on February - 15 - 2012

Stamp duty holiday for properties worth up to £250,000 ends next month

Lloyds targets interest-only loans

Posted by admin on February - 15 - 2012

Lloyds Banking Group has become the latest big high street lender to tighten its rules on interest-only mortgages

Homeowners hit by down-valuations

Posted by admin on February - 13 - 2012

Homes in Northern Ireland and north-west England are more likely than those in the rest of the UK to have been marked down by surveyors

Banks get strict on interest-only loans

Posted by admin on February - 13 - 2012

Santander’s move comes as part of a clampdown on interest-only lending by lenders, who are introducing stricter lending criteria

Solar buyers in race to beat tariff deadline

Posted by admin on February - 6 - 2012

Government deadline gives homeowners less than four weeks to install and register renewable energy systems to qualify for higher rate

Sale and rent back schemes halted

Posted by admin on February - 6 - 2012

The financial regulator has cracked down on controversial sale and rent back deals that target distressed homeowners

Chelsea’s five-year fixed-rate mortgage

Posted by admin on February - 4 - 2012

3.19 per cent deal comes with a fee of £1,495 and is available to borrowers with a deposit of 30 per cent or more

Best mortgage rates go private

Posted by admin on February - 4 - 2012

Some private banks will price their mortgage rates relative to overnight Libor, which is closer to Bank of England base rate at just under 0.6 per cent

Water bills to rise by 5.7 per cent

Posted by admin on February - 1 - 2012

Customers pay for multibillion infrastructure upgrade as Ofwat sets aggregate price rises for industry

Details emerge on "NewBuy" mortgages

Posted by admin on February - 1 - 2012

Aim to help 100,000 homebuyers with only a 5 per cent deposit to purchase a new-build property

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