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Can long-term mortgages help solve the UK’s housing crisis?
...In the UK, home loans are funded in part from deposits and lenders carry the risk of default. Insurance to protect against defaults, widespread in the 1990s, is now rarely used....
April 23, 2024
Mortgages
High mortgage rates lead to rise in lending scams
...Mortgage rates were at 7.5 per cent, a 10-year high and more than double the 3.25 per cent interest Angela, who requested that the Financial Times not use her last name, was paying on the loan on her home...
April 10, 2024
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Personal Finance
The struggle to choose the right mortgage
...The growing availability of mortgages has been matched by a growth in new loans....
April 19, 2024
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US new home sales stall at start of year as mortgage rates creep higher
...Sales of new-single family homes in the US have stalled since the start of this year, as mortgage rates creep up from the multi-month lows they hit in late 2023....
March 25, 2024
UK property
First-time buyers targeted with £5,000 deposit mortgage
...Mortgage brokers have welcomed an “innovative” home loan aimed at first-time buyers, which requires a deposit of just £5,000 for homes worth up to £500,000....
March 29, 2024
Unhedged
Dick Bove: ‘Research is dead’ Premium content
...Basically, I defined what was wrong with mortgage markets. These “modified mortgages” entailed you buying the home, borrowing the money and paying 1 per cent on the mortgage for three years....
February 2, 2024
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LexUS banks
Why rocketing US mortgage lenders have gone too far, too fast Premium content
...The Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates, probably beginning in June. The average rate for a 30-year, fixed home mortgage was around 6.63 per cent last week, according to Freddie Mac....
February 5, 2024
UK interest rates
UK mortgage rates tick up as race towards cheaper deals eases
...That’s why they have to react so quickly,” said Simon Gammon, a mortgage broker at Knight Frank. At the end of 2023 there was a rally in bond markets that prompted lenders to lower mortgage rates....
February 22, 2024
UK house prices
Larger properties drive UK asking prices to near-record high
...The data comes against a backdrop of recent volatility in the mortgage market. Home loan rates peaked in the summer of 2023 before declining sharply at the end of last year....
April 21, 2024
Commercial property
Office loans ‘living on borrowed time’
...For context, single-family residential mortgages made up 34% of FDIC-insured bank loan books in 2009, a far higher level than the 9.3% of loan books currently made up by CRE loans....
March 20, 2024
Mortgages
UK mortgage arrears hit 7-year high, says Bank of England
...Home loan arrears are lower than during the 2008-09 financial crisis in part because of a resilient labour market and improved mortgage regulations....
March 12, 2024
Mortgages
UK mortgage demand returns to growth in first quarter
...The index, which tracks the proportion of lenders reporting an increase in demand for home loans versus those reporting a decrease, rose to 35.9 in the first quarter, according to the Bank of England’s quarterly...
April 11, 2024
Property sector
Jeremy Hunt draws up plans for 99% mortgage scheme
...In 2021 the government introduced a 95 per cent loan-to-value mortgage scheme which officials say has helped close to 40,000 home buyers....
February 22, 2024
Property sector
Record number of cash offers show New York property is only for the rich
...As mortgage rates hover around 6 per cent, nearly 70 per cent of Manhattan homes purchased in the final quarter of 2023 were bought without a mortgage, according to Pamela Liebman, the chief executive of...
March 5, 2024
US banks
Blank-cheque company aims to buy failed US banks
...Porticoes Capital will seek to take over banks closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the US regulator, according to an official filing....
March 13, 2024
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Remortgaging
Mortgage lending to older UK borrowers slumps
...“Previously, older borrowers may have used [mortgages] for home improvement, travel or to help a younger family member get on the property ladder,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, a mortgage...
February 19, 2024
Mortgages
Three cheers for supply?
...Would-be homebuyers who have been dreaming of Federal Reserve rate cuts might need to dial down their hopes....
March 18, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Traders build up bets of Fed interest rate rise
...Long-term mortgages: Rising mortgage rates have been a big contributor to the UK’s cost of living crisis. Can long-term mortgages, a norm in the US, help solve the country’s housing crunch?...
April 23, 2024
Eurozone interest rates
Falling loan demand builds rate cut pressure as ECB prepares to meet
...They predicted corporate loan demand would keep falling but said mortgage demand was set to rebound in a positive signal for house prices in the eurozone, which fell last year for the first time in more...
April 9, 2024
UK property
Have you taken out a long-term fixed rate mortgage?
...Over the past few years UK policymakers have explored the idea of mortgages with an interest rate locked in for the term of the loan, along the lines of long-term products offered in countries like the US...
February 9, 2024
UK politics
Ex-minister blames mortgage rise for his quitting UK government post
...Former UK science minister George Freeman has blamed an impending jump in the cost of his mortgage for his decision to quit the role and warned politics was becoming an unaffordable career....
January 29, 2024
Gillian Tett
It’s time to be honest about America’s commercial real estate hangover
...However, funding has also come from private lenders and the commercial mortgage-backed securities sector, often bundled into collateralised loan obligations....
March 21, 2024
New York Community Bank
Number of weak US banks jumps as NYCB stabilised on $1bn capital raise
...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Thursday said the number of weak US banks had risen by eight to 52 in the final three months of 2023, the biggest jump since the demise of SVB....
March 8, 2024
Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
Do we have to repay loans to my in-laws?
...I am divorcing my husband and have found out he borrowed money, unbeknown to me, from his parents, to help pay our mortgage for the past few months, due to our rate going up significantly....
March 20, 2024
Capital markets
Reforming America’s lenders of second-to-last resort
...Last week the US Federal Housing Finance Agency presented its report on the future of the Federal Home Loan Banks....
November 15, 2023

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