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The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee today agreed to maintain the official Bank Rate at 0.5%, the historical low introduced early on in the financial crisis. Continue reading →

Overall I think interest rates will likely stay where they are through the year and house prices will just bounce along the bottom as they have done for the past couple of years but it’s still a good time to be a landlord. Continue reading →

Although the negative news coming out of the Eurozone and Europe is impacting on the housing market, the recent figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show an increase in lending. Octobers grow mortgage lending was estimated to be £13.1 … Continue reading →

The Rightmove.co.uk House Price Index (HPI) for November 2011 sees a remarkable fall in house for sale prices and seller numbers. The November figures reported a large fall of -3.1% which is in complete contrast to the sizable positive 2.8% … Continue reading →

The Bank of England today took the decision to inject a further £75bn into the UK Economy via it’s programme of quantitaive easing (QE). This is in addition to the £200bn it has already pupmed into back in 2009. The … Continue reading →