All Entries Tagged With: "mortgage"
Mortgage fee increases will result in full blown house price crash
Over the past few months we have seen mortgage lenders increase their fees, and is looks as if there is no sign of this stopping. These increases in fees will then have a knock on affect, as a result could push the housing market in further into a full-blown crash, this is something that
Nationwide Building Society increases mortgage rates again
The Nationwide Building Society has now increased a number of their mortgage rates for a second time in just two weeks. The mortgage lender has raised some of their tracker and fixed rate mortgages by 0.2% and 0.5%. This will come as a shock to
Prison sentence for two men involved in mortgage fraud
Two men involved in a mortgage scam have been given a prison sentence of 70 months and five years supervised released. The two men are only just a small part of a much larger scam, in all the operation which saw other men steal up to $2.3 million from local
4.6 percent drop in mortgage applications due to rate rise
According to the trade group Mortgage Bankers Association’s, mortgage applications have fallen by 4.6 percent for the week ending May 23, this is all due to the recent rate rise. Volume has also declined in the refinance market as well by
Fall in mortgage lending now affecting house sales
April is now the second lowest month on record for mortgages being approved, and this is now starting to have an affect on the housing market. The slump in these approved mortgages is down by at least 39 per cent, compared to the same time last year. The first signs that we was in for [...]
Leeds Building Society dumps mortgage papers in street
It seems as if more and more banks and building societies are not disposing of their customers details in the correct way. The latest to be guilty of this is Leeds Building Society in Belfast, as mortgage details of their customers were found on the street by a group of girls. As you would imagine [...]