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What effect is the mansion tax having on house prices?
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What is debt, and how do different types work?
22+ hour, 53+ min ago (950+ words) If you’ve ever taken out a loan or used a credit card to cover a car repair, you’ve created debt. Debt is money you borrow and agree to pay back, usually...
Commentary: How to build a better housing market
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (263+ words) Detail from a Sears, Roebuck & Co. "Honor Bilt Modern Homes" catalog from 1921. Less than a century ago, you could order a house out of a catalogue. Sears, Roebuck and Co. would ship it to you in pieces — precut lumber, doors,…...
Rise in High Housing Costs to Sway Voters
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (146+ words) “Barely six weeks out from the midterm elections, housing costs that many Americans have long said are too high are looking even more out of reach,” Bloomberg reports. “The latest blow for consumers came Thursday, when Freddie Mac reported that…...
New Jersey consumers to receive $28.5 million in Credit Acceptance settlement
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (437+ words) TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey and 40 other states have reached a $694 million settlement with Credit Acceptance Corporation that will provide cash restitution and debt relief to consumers and resolve allegations involving the company’s subprime auto lending practices. New Jersey is expected to…...
Government urging lenders to move away from EWS1 forms, minister says
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (668+ words) A minister has said the government will lobby the mortgage industry to stop requiring EWS1 forms. Florence Eshalomi, the new minister for homelessness, democracy, communities and faith, told MPs yesterday that there is an “overreliance” on the tool. Responding to a…...
Parties feud over solution to interest rates, housing crisis
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (10+ words) Nine.com.au...
Markets bet on five rate hikes but economists disagree. Who is right?
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (51+ words) This is Money Investors and economists disagree on rate hikes: Will there be more mortgage misery or much-needed respite for households? - See more This is Money on Google - save us as a Preferred Source By HUGO DUNCAN, BUSINESS EDITOR...
FRA mandates event-by-event credit reporting for non-bank lenders
1+ week, 2+ day ago (127+ words) What the decisions do not address is the technical plumbing — no maximum reporting latency, no required format or validation rules, no clarity on how outages or failed transmissions will be handled, and still no specification for how an approved-but-undrawn facility…...
Why Treasury’s $6 billion bond buyback didn’t lower mortgage rates
1+ week, 3+ day ago (407+ words) The Treasury bought back billions in government debt, but mortgage rates stayed elevated. Here’s why home loans didn’t get cheaper....