Where Are The Best Interest Rates To day we are certainly seeing some of the best interest rates ever seen in the history of motgage lending. Back in 1975 there was around 5,000 different interest rates available in the UK mortgage market and just before the credit crunch four year ago there were over 18,000 different interest...
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The Lowest Mortgage Rate in Decades Homeowners are today missing out on some the lowest fixed mortgage rate deals available in the last twenty four years. On the 9th March 2009 the Bank of England first reduced the base rate to 0.5% where it has remained for the last 31 months and homeowners have...
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Lloyds Banking Group has launched a mortgage product aimed at the Negative Equity Mortgage borrowers that have a mortgage with no capital in their property and they need to move home. This comes as inflation rockets, growth in the economy falls below zero and Mervyn King the Governor of the bank of England recently...
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Negative Equity Mortgages Return The return of negative equity mortgages has become widespread again due to the collapse in the housing market which happened due to the global downfall of the banking system. The last time we saw mortgaged property worth less than the amount borrowed to purchase them was back in the late...
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The Council of Mortgage Lenders has today published the latest figures showing that the Buy-to-let market had risen by 12% in the third quarter of 2010. Some 26,900 buy-to-let mortgages worth £2.8 billion were advanced during this period. There are currently around 1.29 million buy-to-let mortgages. Demand for buy-to-let mortgages is being fuelled by...
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For every ten homes sold last month one was a remortgage. Until more mortgages arranged are remortgages each month I very doubt that property prices will drop any further. The reason for the house prices being unreasonably buoyant is due to the fact that for every ten houses sold only six new homes are...
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Getting a mortgage is going to be a lot tougher – particularly for people with a less-than-perfect credit history or anyone whose income has previously been self-certified. The money saving expert recently heard the account of a lady who had missed one credit card payment and a council tax payment in the last twelve...
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At a time when all mortgage lenders have shown us they do not have an appetite to lend money, along comes the Nationwide with a pioneering new niche mortgage product for their existing borrowers. Last month they introduced their ground-breaking negative equity mortgage to their clients. This will allow their borrowers to borrow up...
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The mortgage market remains in a state of quandary with changing opinions and advice being given by the money and savings experts. This recession is proving to be deeper and more unforgiving than the previous. Mortgage Brain who provides a mortgage sourcing system which is used by professional mortgage brokers has said that the...
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The CBI The Bank of England base rate remains at 0.5% for the third consecutive month there are warnings recommending that higher fixed rate mortgage deals are on the horizon. Borrowers are reluctant to remortgage now due to the low interest rates they have with their current mortgage deals. This benefits borrowers on tracker...
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