With the latest news that house price decline in the UK has hit double digit numbers, and that the decline is even more rapid than at any point in living memory. We are following through with a suggestion we made some time ago … if house prices are bound to fall at least 30...
Read more »
Latest Story
UK House Price Challenge
Service sector economy to collapse
Anyone who can remember the Thatcher era, will remember that the great mantra at the time was that we were moving to a service sector economy. With steel works and mines closing we witnessed great swathes of devastation cut across many parts of the...
Read more »
House Prices – catch a falling dagger
News in the UK press this weekend has been full of insightful articles about how the housing market is in trouble and that even financially solvent people have no hope of getting a loan for houses.
Halifax announced that it would require future borrowers...
Read more »
How far will the housing market fall
We’ve been harping on about the housing bubble for some time here at The Business News Source. As we pointed out it wasn’t ‘if’ – but ‘when’ the collapse would happen. OK, so the ‘when’ is now here and the focus has shifted to...
Read more »
UK CML encourage more debt
With an astounding example of inappropriate timing, the UK’s Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) yesterday announced that the equity release sector should be encouraged to grow by the government.
Equity release schemes are designed to homeowners to release cash from the current value of their...
Read more »
Will Abbey insanity takedown Santander?
All eyes at the bourses in Europe will be on Santander on Monday morning. With confidence in the banking sector at all time low it seems that the Spanish bank has slipped up badly by allowing its British owned Abbey to offer an insane...
Read more »