Loans of five times income for nurses
Nurses, teachers and other key workers were told this week by a mortgage broker that they could buy a home with a loan worth five times their salary - compared with three...
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Should I change my bank account to get better interest rates?
Q I keep reading that consumers should shop around to get the best rates on their current accounts and, as I have banked with Lloyds TSB for 13 years now, I'm wondering w...
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House prices continue meteoric rise
House prices shot up at their fastest rate in 13 years in the second quarter of 2002, and could rise by 18% by the year end, according to the latest report by Nationwide ...
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Why was I turned down for Halifax credit card?
Q I recently had an application for a Halifax credit card declined. On 20 April 2002 in a response to JP of Ealing, you state that, according to Halifax, all mortgage bor...
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The perils of relying on those false profits
You've got a house with a 25-year mortgage, say. When the bills come in for gas, electricity, phone, community charge etc, you don't pay them each month. You tack them on...
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Corporate America has been lying for years
The poisonous fallout from the WorldCom collapse will further undermine the confidence of millions of homeowners, pension savers and small-time share traders in a financi...
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Cover on a need to know basis
New home loan customers have to be told about accident, sickness and unemployment policies under a joint Association of British Insurers and Council of Mortgage Lenders s...
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The final straw
One of the difficulties with council tax referendums (Analysis, June 25) is the difficulty for taxpayers in understanding the relationship between council expenditure dec...
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Brown hints at rate rise to curb home price boom
Gordon Brown today gives his strongest hint yet that the government believes the Bank of England may be forced to raise interest rates to prevent Britain's booming housin...
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Lenders call for rate rise
Mortgage lenders yesterday urged the Bank of England to raise interest rates in a pre-emptive strike on Britain's overheating housing market to prevent the boom turning i...
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