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Insider’s view - Crunch timev

June 1, 2008

John Stewart introduces this month’s mortgage and financial market special

Bargain hunters

June 1, 2008

A rash of trading updates from AIM-listed developers has provided further confirmation of a poor spring selling season, further pushing down share prices in th…

Credit crunch sends industry “off a cliff”

June 1, 2008

“Overwhelming global forces” have swamped the housing market, leaving prime minister Gordon Brown little room to manoeuvre and posing a grave threat to the w…

Declining production forces mass job cuts

June 1, 2008

Peter Redfern heads up Taylor Wimpey’s UK and US divisions following Ian Sutcliffe’s resignation

Lenders can sustain a 20% drop in house prices – Moody’s

May 30, 2008

UK banks and building societies could sustain a 20% fall in UK house prices in a year without further damaging their capital reserves, a report has claimed.

House prices falling but borrowers better off than in ‘90s – Nationwide

May 29, 2008

House prices fell by 2.5% in May, but borrowers are better placed “to weather the storm” than in the 1990s, according to Nationwide.

Mortgage approvals up but still down from last year – BBA

May 29, 2008

The number of mortgage deals approved in April rose slightly from March, but the number was significantly down on last April’s statistics, the British Bankers …