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What Exactly is a Property Really Worth
Date: 2009-09-22 11:24:43 , Category: Articles

After a 18-20% drop from their peak in Aug 2007, house prices are showing signs of stablisation. Some surveys are even reporting slight rise in prices. Is this time for cheers all round?
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Repossession - how government's Pre-Action Protocol helping families
Date: 2009-08-17 12:01:33 , Category: Repossession

Out of all the government initiated schemes to help people save from the threat of repossession, Pre-Action Protocol is probably the most effective. This gives directive to the judiciary. But this scheme is not without critics either. Read on.
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How is Support of Mortgage Interest helping families from repossession
Date: 2009-08-17 11:49:46 , Category: Repossession

People who lost their jobs for no fault of their own can claim mortgage interest benefits. In other words, state will help them pay their mortgage interest. This way they will keep the roof over their head while looking for alternative employment. But this created 2 major problems for people. Read for more.
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Homeowners Mortgage Support Scheme - How this government initiave is helping families facing repossession
Date: 2009-08-17 11:38:55 , Category: Repossession

Under this scheme, families who have experienced a sudden and significant loss of earnings can defer to interest only mortgage, and may even defer up to 70% of their interest payments to up to 2 years. What are the benefits, or pitfalls of this scheme? Read on.
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How Mortgage Rescue Scheme is helping struggling borrowers facing repossession
Date: 2009-08-17 11:31:30 , Category: Repossession

Various initiatives have been launched by the government to help people struggling with their mortgages to remain in their homes. One of them is Mortgage Rescue Scheme. Some say it works but others swear that it is a waste of time. But the intentions of the government are clear - to help. Find out more.
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How Landlords are using Internet to Detect Rent Dodgers
Date: 2009-08-14 21:39:48 , Category: Articles

Smart landlords are using Internet to stop rent cheats in their tracks by sharing information of known suspects. They can even speak to each other and find out more about the potential offenders and take action accordingly.
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Using Home Staging to Sell Your Home Fast
Date: 2009-08-14 21:36:30 , Category: Quick Property Sale

Preparing a house for sale once meant decluttering, painting walls neutral, and burning a candle or baking cookies prior to a showing, but home staging has evolved into a marketing tool, effectively making it essential as hiring the right real estate agent. What's made the biggest difference between selling a home today verses only 20 years ago, is that properties are not just homes anymore they are products to be sold in the open market.
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Housing Market - Are We Reading A Bit Too Much in Recent Reports
Date: 2009-08-14 21:24:00 , Category: News

Various media reports coming from all directions are happily claiming an imminent rise in property prices. We suspect that people are reading a biyt too much between the lines here. Fully functional housing market without the first time buyers is not much of a market.
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Are house prices on the rise or falling - does any one know?
Date: 2009-08-10 14:51:56 , Category: Articles

Last week both the Nationwide Building Society and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggested that UK house prices may end 2009 higher than they started it. Now the Centre for Economics and Business Research predicts a fall of 3% this year. Can experts agree for sure?
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Top Tips to Avoid House Repossession
Date: 2009-08-10 14:26:38 , Category: Repossession

You may be one of those unfortunate people facing the chance of losing your home. Due to interest rates rising in the UK, the repossession fear is real for many homeowners.
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Green Shoots of Recovery in Housing Market is Wishful Thinking
Date: 2009-07-27 23:17:05 , Category: News

Extremely old and fiercely independent research bodies in UK are predicting that any chance of housing marketing becoming 'normal' any time soon is nothing more than wishful thinking. But Right Move and RICS are predicting an uoturn any time soon. Who is right? To make your own mind, read on.
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Danger Signals for Britain
Date: 2009-07-27 17:39:59 , Category: Repossession

Whatever the positive spin by British government, country is facing a financial crisis. Government has taken an additional £700 debt for every citizen - young or old, and plans to take an additional £2300 this financial year alone. Foreign investors are keeping the country out of trouble - for now but the good will may not last for long, warns the IMF. Read what implications it may have for home owners.
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Green Shoots of Recovery Even If Repossessions are on the Increase
Date: 2009-07-23 11:41:57 , Category: Articles

Right Move, a property portal used by buyers, sellers and the estate agents around the country says that there are indication of green shoots of recovery in the housing sector. This is despite a rise in unemployment and risk of double dip recession. House prices have increased for the fifth month in a row. Can this be true? Read for more.
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Repossession Time Bomb -- Soon to Go Off
Date: 2009-07-22 12:07:59 , Category: Repossession

Low interest rates, understanding lenders, helpful government - these some other factors have helped many struggling home owners to keep their homes from the clutches of lenders. Observers are now beginning to believe that the party have to come to an end soon. Are we witnessing a repossession time bomb about to go off? Find out more.
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House Price Rise is Imminent - According to Some
Date: 2009-07-14 12:28:08 , Category: Quick Property Sale

After a 'bumper' house sale data of May and June, more estate agents and surveyors have joined the bandwagon of optimistic types. They are predicting that the house prices will start to rise in about 3 months. Can they be taken seriously? Read on
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New Lending Scheme from Nationwide Is Not That Bad Afterall
Date: 2009-07-13 12:21:10 , Category: Articles

Last week Nationwide created a ripple in the property market with a product offering 125% loan to those moving homes. Some predicted a return to bad old days of irresponsible lending. There may be some truth in it but there is also some logic behind this move. Read on to find out more...
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Risk of UK Repossessions was Overblown
Date: 2009-07-10 12:56:49 , Category: Repossession

There wouldn't be as many repossessions this year as feared earlier. The reason is low interest rates and the government backed advisers in every court in England. Read more...
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Back to Bad Old Days of High Debt
Date: 2009-07-09 10:28:27 , Category: Interest Rates

Credit crunch started with irresponsible lending from banks. It has not been 2 years yet and the bad old days of 125 per cent lending seem to be back. Lenders claim there is hardly any risk. Read on...
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Government Efforts To Stop Repossession Are Not Working
Date: 2009-07-08 16:30:16 , Category: Repossession

Government introduced its mortgage rescue scheme in January with a lot of fanfare. However it has not succeeded as many hoped for. A £200 million budget and 75,000 potential repossessions this year and this scheme has approved just 6 cases in the last 7 months. Read on for more
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The house prices are expected to rise this year
Date: 2009-06-09 11:20:43 , Category: Articles

According to a survey conducted by RICS, or Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors, London house prices escaped the worst expectations and are expected to start stabilising, even rising this year. This may be due to the fact that London has not been affected as badly by recession or job loses as previously feared.
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Is Britain Facing 1930s Style Depression in House Prices
Date: 2009-04-30 13:10:20 , Category: News

International Monetary Fund predicted last week that British economy is more likely to shrink by 0.4 percent rather than a rebound as predicted by the Chancellor. A former advisor to treasury is not even nearly that optimistic.
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