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Firms urge homebuyers to take out mortgages before it is too late
LONDON - Homebuyers in the UK have been urged not to hope for lower fixed-rate deals, as the surging inflation would not allow such a scenario. This news has now come as a surprise since lenders were falling over themselves to offer good rates just a fortnight ago.
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Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:25 GMT |
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John Prescott says buying a home in Britain is too costly
LONDON - The Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott has come down heavily on the cost of buying houses in Britain and said that unless people were already on the real estate market, they would find it tough to buy a decent house in the country. He was speaking on the occasion of announcing the nine winners who had won the right to submit designs to build his £60,000 homes.
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Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:05 GMT |
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Annual house price inflation is pegged at 5 percent: ODPM
LONDON - The Office for the Deputy Prime Minister today released figures for the month of June, which show that the annual house price inflation has slowed down to 5 percent as compared to the inflation in May, which stood at 6 percent.
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Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:50 GMT |
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Leeds & Holbeck announces new mortgage plans
Leeds & Holbeck Building Society has announced that it will be instituting a new mortgage plan range that includes the three and five-year fixed rate mortgage plans.
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Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:25 GMT |
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Northern Rock rolls high albeit low lying housing market
In stark contrast to the decelerating property market, Northern Rock, the Newcastle-based bank that is the country’s listed seventh-largest bank in terms of assets, reported considerably heartening results in the first-half of the year.
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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:20 GMT |
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Scottish town tops property boom town list
The Bank of Scotland house price index (HPI) has revealed that the house prices in Scotland have boomed by 12.5 percent over the last year. This rise is well above the UK national average of 3.7 percent.
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Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:15 GMT |
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