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 portfolio of mortgage offerings. Sometimes you just know that there’s...
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A trade group for real estate agents on Tuesday lowered its forecast of 2007 existing home sales for the seventh straight month, predicting a drop of 8.6 percent from last year. The National Association of Realtors’ revised monthly prediction calls for U.S. existing home sales of 5.92 million in 2007, down from 6.48 million...
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According to Investment news … During the point of maximummarket turmoil earlier this month, the Daily Mail reassured us all. TheUK property market is not like the US market: there has been no boom inbuilding and so there will be no UK property market crisis, itsuggested. And yet many, including the IMF, ABN Amro...
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The UK has always been attributed with grey boring weather even though the Brits are famous for making as much conversation about it as possible. Well over the last few years the Brits have had much to talk about, with the hottest and wettest months on record. Recent floods have delighted the British chattering...
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If you think the world has gone crazy well check out Australia where house price inflation and huge debts have resulted in about a third of the population not expecting to afford their first house until they’re forty years old. For those in the UK (especially) London this may not seem to be a...
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