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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Some Buy-to-Let landlords have been hardest hit by the current downturn in the economy and are losing properties by three times the rate of ordinary homeowners. Landlords saw the housing boom as an easy way to make money and many felt that the property boom would never end or so they thought. It seems...
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The government has recently promoted three new schemes to help struggling homeowners that have insufficient money in savings accounts to help support their mortgage repayments when faced with a loss of income. The schemes are aimed at homeowners that may be unable to keep up their mortgage payments for one reason or another. It...
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The effect of the global economic downturn is having serious consequences for homeowners through out the UK. Homeowners with families are worried about not being able to pay their mortgage commitments as their jobs are affected by the recession. Expert advice and help is being sought by people from all walks of life that...
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The United Kingdom personal debt today stands at £1,458 billion and the government intend to increase their debt to £175 billion this year and similar figures for the next three years. The latest figures available from Credit Action this month suggests that the average household debt is £59,765 including mortgages, £1.02 billion will be...
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The number of homes being repossessed by mortgage lenders rose by 54% to 40,000 according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The Financial Services Authority (FSA) recently reported that house arrears had surged forward by 31%. As the credit crunch bites ever deeper people who are struggling to pay their mortgages are searching...
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The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has released figures this month that show a sharp rise in homes being repossessed. The figures show that 40,000 people lost their homes last year which is up from 26,200 in 2007. These figures also included buy-to-let repossessions from landlords with buy-to-let mortgages and landlords who are renting...
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The Council of Mortgage Lenders says that in 2008 there were 46% fewer first-time buyers than in 2007. Those first-time buyers that did get on the housing market were reported to have put down a 22% deposit on their new home. Estate Agents and Mortgage brokers would like to forget 2008 as it was...
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What’s the alternative? The problem we face now is not the cost of money but the availability of money. We need the interbank base rate to ease up to make it possible for banks to get money from the markets to allow them to lend again properly. The low interest rates at present do...
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There seems little point in reducing interest rates any further as the interest rate cuts are proving to be ineffective and the Bank of England base rate cuts are proving to be unpopular with savers and borrowers. The pound is falling against the dollar and the euro. Savers are not being rewarded for saving...
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