It’s a chill wind blowing through the property market

January 9, 2010 · Filed Under housing, mortgage deals, mortgage news, mortgage rates, repossessions · Comment 

It is not just the icy blast of a winter wind straight from Siberia that has been cooling the UK housing market. The thermometer might have been reading minus twelve outside Rob Towers this morning – but things are even frostier in the world of real estate with property prices falling faster than the [...]

Yo Ho Ho - it’s another Unhappy Xmas for Estate Agents

December 21, 2009 · Filed Under Property, UK Housing market, housing, mortgage rates, property prices · Comment 

Somewhat unusually for me I got most of my Christmas shopping done early this year. Being something of a skinflint I always make a beeline for free parking areas, rather than pay through the nose for a car park. And one of the joys of this practice is that it is near to [...]

The happiness of remortgaging

September 1, 2009 · Filed Under housing, housing news, mortgages. mortgage rates · Comment 

I am reliably informed that from this month I become a lot better off this week. Simply because I have finally managed to get out from a fixed-rate mortgage. And the strange thing is, when I took out the mortgage that was considered a good idea too – because as we know mortgage [...]