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            <title>Mortgage firm fined</title>
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            <description>A mortgage lender has been fined £1.12 million by the City watchdog for failings which led to borrowers losing £2.3 million.</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:33:44 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage rates resume upward path</title>
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            <description>Mortgage rates have resumed their upward path with one lender hiking the cost of its deals by up to 1.6 per cent.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:11:16 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>King: &apos;No magic solution to lending drought&apos;</title>
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            <description>Bank of England Governor Mervyn King warned there was no magic solution to the current lending drought.</description>
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            <title>Mortgage approvals down 65% year-on-year</title>
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            <description>The number of mortgages approved for house purchase in July was almost two-thirds lower than a year ago, figures show.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:51:01 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>RBS is expected to release historically bad figures</title>
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            <description>One of the UK&apos;s biggest banks could set a new record for losing money.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:34:02 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>House prices drop 8.8%</title>
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            <description>House prices have lost 8.8 per cent of their value during the past year, according to the UK&apos;s largest mortgage lender.</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:37:35 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Lenders repossessing &apos;too quickly&apos;</title>
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            <description>Specialist mortgage lenders are &quot;too ready&quot; to take court action against cash-strapped borrowers struggling with repayments.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:18:06 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage approvals dive</title>
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            <description>Mortgage approvals dived by nearly 70 per cent during the past year to hit a new low, figures have shown.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:21:14 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage advisers &apos;fail&apos; consumers</title>
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            <description>Fewer than one in ten mortgage brokers are providing acceptable advice to consumers.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:04:25 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Money News (Lunchtime) for July 22nd, 2008</title>
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            <description>Petrol price war - King says banks need protection - Mortgage lender &quot;in buyout talks&quot;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:01:30 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage lending slumps</title>
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            <description>Banks and building societies advanced a total of just £23.8 billion during June, the lowest level since February 2006.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:44:16 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>US mortgage lender closes</title>
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            <description>IndyMac Bank has become the latest mortgage lender in the US to succumb to the pressures of the credit crunch.</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:02:44 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>New home loans up 4%</title>
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            <description>Lending for people buying a home rose slightly during May but the number of people remortgaging fell sharply.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:09:17 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage groups increase rates</title>
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            <description>Lenders continue to pass on higher borrowing costs to homeowners as two of the UK&apos;s biggest mortgage lenders increase their rates.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:40:38 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage lenders offer more reposessions help</title>
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            <description>The mortgage industry - itself under fire over repossessions - accuses the Government of not doing enough to prevent them.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:57:22 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Nationwide to raise mortgage rates</title>
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            <description>Nationwide Building Society said from Tuesday it is increasing the cost of fixed-rate mortgages by up to 0.3%.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:13:19 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>House prices drop for eighth month</title>
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            <description>House prices have fallen for the eighth month in a row as a &quot;buyer&apos;s strike&quot; continues to grip the market, figures have suggested.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 08:54:11 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Repossession orders rise</title>
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            <description>The number of homeowners at risk of losing their properties has soared by nearly a fifth in the past year.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:24:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Nationwide raises mortgage rates</title>
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            <description>Nationwide is increasing the cost of some of its mortgage deals for the second time in two weeks.</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:18:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>House prices drop 2.5 per cent</title>
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            <description>House prices fell by 2.5 per cent in March, the biggest fall in a single month since September 1992.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:44:29 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage hunters take another hit</title>
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            <description>First Direct will no longer offer mortgages to new customers, while two other lenders have raised their rates for existing ones.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:44:54 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage approvals down by 40%</title>
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            <description>The number of mortgage approvals for house purchase has fallen by nearly 40 per cent during the past year, figures have shown.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:45:20 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Lenders hike mortgage rates</title>
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            <description>Britain&apos;s mortgage lenders raise the cost of borrowing despite expected cuts in interest rates by the Bank of England.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Cowell turns nice for mortgage pay-off</title>
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            <description>Simon Cowell has shrugged off his &apos;Mr Nasty&apos; image and paid off the mortgage of a US couple whose daughter has cancer.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Mr Nasty Turns Nice</title>
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            <description>Simon Cowell proves he&apos;s a big softie at heart when he made a massive donation in the States</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Calls for repossession safety net</title>
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            <description>A safety net needs to be created to help protect people who risk having their home repossessed.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Bradford &amp; Bingley profits plummet</title>
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            <description>Profits at mortgage lender Bradford &amp; Bingley virtually halved in 2007 after an &quot;eventful and difficult&quot; period for the banking sector.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Glasgow is UK&apos;s most mortgaged city</title>
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            <description>Glasgow residents owe the highest percentage in the UK of their home value to the bank.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Bleak predictions from City watchdog</title>
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            <description>Growing numbers of consumers are likely to face debt repayment problems in 2008 according to a report from Britain&apos;s financial watchdog.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Credit crisis hits mortgage lender Paragon</title>
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            <description>Mortgage firm Paragon has admitted it is facing funding uncertainties after costs soared during the summer credit crunch.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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            <description>Mortgage applicants are being warned to prepare for rejection - with 60 per cent turned down over the past six months.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:52:37 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Banks reassure customers over loans</title>
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            <description>Mortgage lenders insist the availability of loans should not be affected by the problems in global credit markets.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:32:51 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Northern Rock cancels dividend payment</title>
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            <description>Troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock said it would not pay shareholders the interim dividend payment it promised in July.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:11:51 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage lending dips</title>
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            <description>The mortgage market has showed early signs of slowing down during July, according to latest figures.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:21:49 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Bank hints at further rate rise</title>
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            <description>Householders already struggling with increased mortgage payments are likely to see interest rates hit 6 per cent in the next few months.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:32:08 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Nationwide to relaunch 25-year fixed-rate loan</title>
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            <description>Nationwide, Britain&apos;s biggest building society, has announced plans to re-introduce its 25-year fixed-rate loan.</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:27:06 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage misery as rates rise to 5.75%</title>
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            <description>Homeowners have been hit with a quarter point interest rate hike to 5.75 per cent, the highest seen since March 2001.</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:44:15 +0100</pubDate>
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            <description>Northern Rock has announced annual profits will be hit due to rising interest rates from cheap fixed-rate home loans.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:01:29 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>House prices could rise to ten times salary</title>
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            <description>Homebuyers of the future could face average property prices that are ten times their salaries if more houses are not built.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:54:22 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>House prices could rise to ten times salary</title>
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            <description>Homebuyers of the future could face average property prices that are ten times their salaries if more houses are not built.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:53:27 +0100</pubDate>
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            <description>Plummeting mortgage approvals in March indicate that higher interest rates are beginning to cool the housing market.</description>
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