Mortgage Market Blog

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Day 10 of everything you need to know about buying and selling a house or a flat in 31 daily bite-sized chunks

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Day 9 of everything you need to know about buying and selling a house in 31 daily bite-sized chunks

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We have all had enough of the ash cloud, but what the housing market could do with is a cash cloud in the form of increased mortgage approvals. The housing market continues its snail like progress from the depths of 2008 and 2009. But data released this...
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The news that the Financial Services Authority has issued its plans to repair the barn doors of the mortgage industry has received a mixed response. Leaving aside obvious jibes about more points scoring than credit scoring, there is at least a return to a...
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The demise of the Cheltenham & Gloucester C&G , it would appear has been greatly exaggerated. On the news of the decision to close the network of C&G offices in June spurred me into eulogising in a post at the loss of the good guys in the...
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The most recent statistics for the mortgage market in England and Wales have shown a small increase in lending. Lending was up 26% in July, but this was still 36 % down from the monies the Banks and Building Societies lent in July 2008 More in depth...
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The mortgage thaw may be underway, but it is clear to me as a Conveyancing Solicitor based in Chipping Sodbury South Gloucestershire , that the pace of issuing a mortgage offer is still painfully slow. Figures issued last week by the British Bankers...
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The turmoil in the mortgage market has thrown up some interesting statistics. Moneyfacts has published data showing that the average shelf life of a mortgage product in June was down to just 14 days from a previous 23 days. The suggested thaw in the...
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It came as a great shock and with considerable disappointment to learn of the demise of the the Cheltenham & Gloucester, part of the Lloyds Banking Group C&G . As a Conveyancing Solicitor , I found them to be the epitome of a well run mortgage...