Mortgages

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Why are millennials so turned off by the Tory party?
Amid housing crisis, post-Brexit drag and hardline migration rhetoric, most 25- to 40-year-olds think party deserves to lose next election

Heather Stewart

30, May, 2023 @5:24 PM

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Almost 800 UK mortgage deals pulled as concerns mount over interest rate rises
Number of residential deals down by almost 7% in a week, in echo of crisis that followed Liz Truss mini-budget

Rupert Jones, Phillip Inman and Kiran Stacey

30, May, 2023 @4:44 PM

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Is it worth playing the waiting game in the hope of a better mortgage deal?
As costs rose yet again last week, with a warning to expect 5%-plus fixed rates, we look at the options for homebuyers

Shane Hickey

29, May, 2023 @8:00 AM

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UK mortgages: ‘How did a £42,500 loan turn into a £477,000 debt?’
A Bank of Scotland offshoot faces questions over loans that shared in the rise in a home’s value. We talk to one of hundreds of families affected

Rupert Jones

27, May, 2023 @7:00 AM

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UK homeowners and first-time buyers warned to brace for 5%-plus mortgage rates
Lenders forced to raise fixed-term deals after latest inflation figure pushed swap rates upwards

Miles Brignall and Phillip Inman

25, May, 2023 @3:24 PM

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A broker told me I don’t earn enough for a London mortgage. Is that true?
I have lived at the family home all my life, I earn £26,000 a year and have about £60,000 for a deposit

Virginia Wallis

22, May, 2023 @6:00 AM

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UK mortgages: time to switch and fix to save up to £400 a month
Average SVR at highest level for more than 15 years as number of home loan products available jump

Rupert Jones

20, May, 2023 @7:00 AM

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The war on Japanese knotweed
The long read: Once hailed as a ‘handsome’ import, this most rampant of plants has come to be seen as a sinister, ruinous enemy. Can it be stopped?

Samanth Subramanian

16, May, 2023 @5:00 AM

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Give customers a fair deal or else, finance regulator warns sector
The Financial Conduct Authority will soon launch the ‘consumer duty’, a tough new regime supposed to ensure firms put people’s needs first

Shane Hickey

15, May, 2023 @8:00 AM

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Would not having a permanent UK address affect my a mortgage application?
I’m renting now but want to spend a year as a digital nomad before trying to buy a house

Virginia Wallis

15, May, 2023 @6:00 AM

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Soaring interest rates to cost UK mortgage holders £12bn in extra payments
Impact of Bank of England’s decision to hike rates to 4.5% will be felt mostly by young families, thinktank says

Phillip Inman

12, May, 2023 @11:01 PM

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‘We won’t be able to pay this much’: UK interest rate hike hits home
Families who have remortgaged or are about to do so tell of a precarious position after rate raised to 4.5%

Jedidajah Otte

11, May, 2023 @1:13 PM

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