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...“Affordability remains a big concern, especially for first-time buyers worried about being priced out of the market,” said Iain McKenzie, chief executive of The Guild of Property Professionals....
...Letter in response to this article: Let’s hallmark green investments like the City guilds of old / From Gregory Jones QC, Alderman, Ward of Farringdon Without London EC2, UK...
...Which mortgage is best should be a simple question — who charges the least?...
...Smaller Guild Mortgage also faced lacklustre investor interest for its IPO earlier in October, selling fewer shares than it had expected. Those shares slipped from an already cut listing price....
...He has tried, and failed, since then to secure a mortgage holiday....
...I can also be driven by need: the need to pay the mortgage. But the biggest motivator is feeling the inspiration that everywhere there’s something interesting....
...L&G is also building 3,000 homes with Guild Living in town and city centres with similar facilities....
...But it is also an error to think about debt, divorced from the guilds and bureaucracies that strategically deploy it....
...The Guild of Master Craftsmen has optional insurance that covers the builder if they go out of business....
...There was unwelcome news for tenants in the research from the first quarter, which drew on official census and housing data, mortgage data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, and a survey of more than...
...pertinent points regarding the nature and role of university education, neither Martin Wolf (“Running a university is not like selling baked beans”, February 19) nor Peter Johnson (“A university is more like a guild...
...or 40 roubles to the dollar have been buying up high-end goods, cars and apartments because a massive repricing hasn’t happened yet,” said Vyacheslav Trapeznikov, acting director of the Urals Builders’ Guild...
...As lender of last resort, it allowed MPS to swap loans and mortgages that were not ECB eligible with some €2bn of Italian Treasury bonds....
...“You can’t pay a mortgage with what you make from art because it’s not regular,” she says, “but I’m beginning to have people write to ask me what I have available....
...Seoul has played down the risk of such credit, saying strict rules on mortgages, which account for 45 per cent of the debt, make it safer than the US and the UK....
...So there is a large affordability gap in terms of property prices and the income people have available to get mortgages.”...
...Nor could she refinance a large mortgage on the property as the turmoil in commercial mortgage markets from the credit crisis took its toll....
...It was a “Florentine guild” that “explicitly prided itself on being different from, and superior to, its competitors”. Is this, then, just a big book about a smallish bank?...
...They were firing on all cylinders, and yet decisions were made to get into the mortgage-backed securities business and either buy a mortgage broker, or whatever they bought, at the wrong moment....
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