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		<title>Mortgage expert warns on fixed rate mortgage increases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the turbulence in the mortgage and financial markets continues, and the ongoing recession continues to take its toll, one mortgage expert has recently warned that the rates on fixed mortgages will increase in the near future, and already his predictions have started to come true with a number of mortgage lenders having recently hiked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/07/02/mortgage-expert-warns-on-fixed-rate-mortgage-increases/</link>
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		<title>Eight year low for mortgages in April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report released by the British Banker&#8217;s Association has shown that the level of net mortgage lending for the month of April from UK lenders slipped to its lowest level in eight years. 
However, whilst the amount that was lent by way of mortgages fell to £2.7 billion the number of mortgages that were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/06/29/eight-year-low-for-mortgages-in-april/</link>
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		<title>Mortgage lenders try and boost markets by cutting costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent report a number of mortgage lenders have recently been trying to boost the mortgage markets by cutting costs for those looking to purchase a property.
Over the past couple of years consumers have experienced real problems with affordability as a result of the global credit crunch, which led lenders to increase fees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/06/25/mortgage-lenders-try-and-boost-markets-by-cutting-costs/</link>
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		<title>Lenders told to stop selling single premium PPI right away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was recently reported that regulators had brought in a ban on the sale of single premium Payment Protection Insurance from lenders, with the ban officially coming into force in October of next year. 
However, although the ban is not set to start officially until October 2010 lenders are being told to stop selling this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/06/23/lenders-told-to-stop-selling-single-premium-ppi-right-away/</link>
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		<title>No change in interest rates for June</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following the Monetary Policy Committee meeting, which was held earlier this week, the Bank of England has announced that the UK base rate is to be kept on hold for yet another month. 
This is the third month that the base rate will have been kept steady, at 0.5 percent, which is still the lowest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/06/20/no-change-in-interest-rates-for-june/</link>
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		<title>Broker and lender optimistic about housing market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A major High Street lender and a well known mortgage broker have both made optimistic predictions about the housing market recently, predicting that by the end of this year house prices could start to increase again. 
The bank and broker think that the end of this year will see the end of the housing slump, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/06/18/broker-and-lender-optimistic-about-housing-market/</link>
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		<title>Deposit level drop from Abbey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month the High Street banking giant which has recently enjoyed taking a larger share of the mortgage market, Abbey, announced that it was cutting its deposit levels for access to its most competitive deals. 
This is one of a number of lenders that have made this move after some lenders were demanding at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/06/15/deposit-level-drop-from-abbey/</link>
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		<title>Industry should learn from reckless lending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A report that was released earlier this month has blamed the ongoing financial crises on reckless lending, and has claimed that lenders should learn by further restricting their lending regulations to ensure that this sort of problem does not arise again in the future. 
The report by the Institute for Public Policy Research has suggested [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/06/13/industry-should-learn-from-reckless-lending/</link>
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		<title>Extra Costs Causing Hardship for Tenants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tenants renting flats and houses in England have recently been faced with a rash of charges that is cutting into the money they have allotted for their expenses. One charity in England has labelled these extra charges by the letting agents as unjust and excessive.  
In a recent report, Citizens Advice says that administration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/06/12/extra-costs-causing-hardship-for-tenants/</link>
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		<title>28% fall from peak to trough for house prices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month figures were released that showed there would be a fall of 28 percent in house prices from the time at which they peaked in October of 2007 to the time at which the property downturn comes to an end. 
The information was released by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.loanempire.co.uk/2009/06/10/28-fall-from-peak-to-trough-for-house-prices/</link>
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