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Loans for capital's poorest (3rd April 2005)
FOR the UK's poorest borrowers, the only access to credit is typically through expensive doorstep lenders or, even worse, loan sharks. Those with poor or no credit history are mostly shunned by mainstream lenders as too much of a risk so are alienated from cheap loan deals and 0% credit cards.
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Advantage appointed to LIME Panel (1st April 2005)
Advantage Home Loans has been appointed to the mortgage panel of Lifetime Insurance Mortgage Experts (LIME) as an approved provider for sub-prime and non-conforming mortgages. More...
Save £1,700 on wedding loans (29th March 2005)
As the wedding season swings into action, financial firms are offering tips on how to save on wedding expenses.
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Northern Rock lends more as home loans market shrinks (28th March 2005)
Northern Rock said it had enjoyed a strong start to 2005, with lending up on a year ago, despite the slowdown in the housing market and weakening consumer borrowing More...
Buy-to-Let Market 'Slowing' (21st March 2005)
Growth in the buy-to-let market has moderated and although the sector is expected to expand over the next few years, it will be at a slower pace, according to a report out today.
Increased interest rates and a lower rate of house price increases are contributing to the slowing growth rate of the market, according to the report from the Nationwide Building Society’s specialist lender, UCB Home Loans.
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First Time Buyers Taking Second Jobs (20th March 2005)
Britain’s would-be home owners are taking second jobs and eating budget food brands to scrape together enough cash for a deposit, according to research out today.
A survey by Lloyds TSB to coincide with the launch of their new ’buying your first home’ guide found that 28% of people will take on a second job to raise the money they need for their first property.
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Self-certified mortgages ‘fuel debt and misery’ (19th March 2005)
An insolvency specialist has called for curbs on self-certified mortgages which allow home buyers to take out mortgages far bigger than they can afford to repay.
Nearly a third of home loans are now given out without borrowers having to provide proof of earnings. But Bev Budsworth, principal of The Debt Advisor, says unchecked lending is helping to push up property prices and consumer debt levels, leading to misery for thousands of families More...
How good are the builders' discounts? (17th March 2005)
With interest in buy-to-let on the decline, developers are forced to offer ever juicier incentives to the investors, writes Jenny Knight More...
Woolwich sets out programme of reforms for first-time buyers (16th March 2005)
The Woolwich has called on banks and building societies to scrap the higher lending charge often levied on first-time buyers.
In the wake of chancellor Gordon Brown's announcement in yesterday's Budget that the stamp duty threshold would be doubled, the Woolwich urged lenders to go further, helping first-time buyers by saving them around £2,000.
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Changes to stamp duty will save first-time buyers £600 (16th March 2005)
AT LEAST 300,000 home purchasers a year, many of them first-time buyers, will escape stamp duty with the doubling of the threshold at which it is activated. The Chancellor said that no one buying a residential property valued at less than £120,000 would pay the 1 per cent tax. The previous threshold was £60,000. More...
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