Find a Property - HBOS Halts Buy-To-Let Lending The specialist HBOS subsidiary, The Mortgage Business, which focuses on buy-to-let and self-certification loans, has suspended all new lending.
BBC NEWS | Business | Housing demand 'curbed' in June UK house prices rose by 1.2% in June, the smallest gain since November, according to the latest survey from the Halifax, the UK's biggest lender.
Reuters | BoE can't ignore booming house prices
The Bank of England cannot and does not ignore the effect of booming house prices on consumer spending, the central bank's deputy governor Rachel Lomax says.
FT.com: King repeats warning that house prices could fall Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, has repeated his warning that house prices could fall, telling homebuyers not to assume they would go on rising forever.
BBC NEWS | Business | Fed raises interest rate to 1.25% The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point, in a widely-anticipated move.
All eyes on the Federal Reserve Bank at 7:15pm as Greenspan announces the interest rate decision. It is widely expected that he will raise the base rate by 0.25% to 1.25%.
BBC NEWS | Business | Q&A: Have house prices peaked? UK house price growth eased in June, rising 0.9% on the month compared with 1.7% in May, according to the Nationwide building society.
BBC NEWS | Business | Debt creeps towards £1 trillion The amount of money owed by consumers has edged closer to the symbolic £1 trillion mark, official figures show.
BBC NEWS | Business | House price growth eases in June UK house price growth eased in June, rising 0.9% on the month compared with 1.7% in May, according to the Nationwide building society.
BBC NEWS | Business | Dip in demand cools house prices Falling demand helped dampen UK house price growth slightly in June, the latest Hometrack survey has found.
