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Money saving Expert says, surely the Bank of England base rate cannot drop any further? They could drop another half a percentage point to zero but there seems little point in reducing interest rates further. The government and the Bank of England have now introduced and started the process of Quantative Easing. They will spend [...]

Mortgage lenders do actually want to offer borrowers the best mortgage deal or the best remortgage deal but they are restricted by the lack of money in the system at present. The banks immediate instinct is survival at the moment and their need to protect their capital base by not lending money or only lending [...]

Over the years I have come across people who have been brainwashed into remortgaging every two or three years by their Bank, Building Society or their Mortgage Broker. These intelligent people are sold the story that know body knows where the interest rates will be in two or three years time and it is better [...]

The Treasury Department has commissioned Sir James Crosby, the former chief executive of HBOS, owner of the Halifax and the Bank of Scotland to carry out a report on the mortgage market. His report suggests that he feels the mortgage market will be paralysed until 2010 as there will be a shortage of mortgage finance [...]

Christmas is a time of religious celebration, a time to spend time with your close family, your extended family, your friends and it is a time for rest and enjoyment. Christmas is a time of giving and receiving and there is no rule that says you need to spend a ‘fortune on gifts.’ After all [...]

Technically we are told by the government that we are in a recession when we have two quarters of negative growth in our economy. Mervyn King the Governor of the Bank of England has just admitted that we are entering a recession. It’s funny that most of us have known for the last six months [...]

In the wake of last weeks shock announcement by Bank of England of a 1½% interest rate drop from 4.5% down to 3%. This was not before time! Around 40 mortgage lenders withdrew their trackers rate products from the market and said they would be reviewing and relaunching their tracker products later this week. By last Friday afternoon [...]

Breaking news from the Halifax Bank who are reporting a 13% drop in house prices for the last year. They claim that the current house price drop is the fastest and the largest house price drop they have ever recorded. The Halifax says that the monthly house price drop of 1.3% per month is now [...]

Record losses were being mirrored around the world as governments scramble to avoid any further disaster. Stock markets are now being driven by fear and not by reason. Record loses are being moved around the world. If you thought we might be hitting the bottom then think again there are new warnings being given hourly [...]