Rising rates moderate mortgage demand
April figures for high street lending show that mortgage demand is moderating in the face of rising interest rates.
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Britons want to live in Australia
When asked where they would most like to live in the world, Australia was voted the most popular overseas destination by Britons at 10%, according to new research from Bank of Scotland International.
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CML goes greener
The Council of Mortgage Lenders has become the first financial services trade body to sign the Trade Association Forum’s declaration on climate change.
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Government must improve home energy efficiency
Responding to the Government’s energy white paper recently published, David Orr, Chief executive, National Housing Federation said:
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Shared ownership: the only way onto the property ladder
Shared equity and part-buy, part-rent schemes will be the only way many of tomorrow’s first time buyers will be able to afford a home, according to a group of housing experts who met in Manchester recently.
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Agents report a buoyant UK residential lettings market
Demand for rental property continues, according to lettings members of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA). The increase in Eastern European immigration, buoyant employment conditions and the demand from those who cannot afford to buy has contributed to a thriving rental market throughout most of the UK in the first quarter of 2007.
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Home chaos after a holiday
Each year over one million British holidaymakers return from a holiday to find that havoc has been wreaked in their home, according to research from Halifax Home Insurance.
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