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30th April 2007
Northern Ireland has the top ten fastest rising property hotspots in the UK. A regional survey looking at 489 towns in Northern Ireland found that property values have gone up 55% since last year – property in Craigavon in 2006 was an average of £118,5...
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30th April 2007
The number of first-time buyers taking out a mortgage greater than the value of their home has risen 21% on last year, with one in ten buyers choosing to borrow the entire value of their property and more.
The rise in borrowing highlights the problems f...
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30th April 2007
With the average first-time property price reaching £156,000, six times the average wage of £26,000, renting a room out for extra income and sharing living costs is the latest way that first-time buyers are helping to pay off the mortgage.
A new typ...
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30th April 2007
House prices could fall by as much as 30% over the next few years, claim experts, which could trigger a recession as currently overvalued property prices (20% overvalued according to Goldman Sachs and the highest in 15 years) are corrected. Many watchers ...
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30th April 2007
It may not be an ideal solution, but for some the unconventional alternative of co-buying a property and sharing the cost, sometimes with a stranger, is the only solution currently available to get onto the property ladder. But it is essential to know the...
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30th April 2007
With the UK property market booming you may think that now is not the best time to invest in property, unless you’re a commercial buy-to-let investor that is. However, there are a few areas in the country that are still affordable and will certainly see...
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25th April 2007
20/04/2006
With high expectations that the Bank of England are poised to raise the rate of interest, many lenders are beginning to withdraw their fixed-rate mortgage packages in anticipation, with critics saying that lenders are giving homeowners with ...
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20th April 2007
Unhappy that many customers use their credit cards wisely, i.e. paying off their balance at the end of each month, and with an eye on adding more stress to those in financial difficulty, some banks are...
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20th April 2007
We have all seen or heard the adverts on the television or radio for debt consolation, and home owner loans, in fact these adverts seem to be rotating more regularly, especially during daytime programmes. Unsurprisingly, and no doubt due to the money spen...
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20th April 2007
I speak from experience. Once upon a time, a few years ago, my partner and I had an offer accepted on lovely top floor apartment over looking a park in Liverpool. But just as we were sorting things out with solicitors etc, we were told by the Estate Agent...
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20th April 2007
It has never been a better time to buy a second home, or invest in the buy-to-let property market. The UK’s booming buy-to-let market is being boosted by immigration and the difficulty of first-time buyers to find suitably priced property. The UK is sec...
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18th April 2007
UK homeowners are, despite higher interest rates, choosing to unlock money tied up in their property. In 2006 homeowners released £49.7bn of equity from their properties, mainly due to the continued rise of house values. Most commonly the mortgage equity...
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13th April 2007
It was with a great sense of trepidation that my partner and I decided to, at last, start looking for our first home. My partner, always the more finically acute, was wary of paying for a property that had an inflated value due to the continued rise of ho...
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12th April 2007
Despite widespread feeling that house prices were, at last, slowing, new figures released by the country’s biggest mortgage lender Halifax, suggest that house prices, are in fact, still rising on the back of a strong economy and shortage of homes for sa...
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