Forum Brief: Housing market
Policy Consultation 21 August 2003
Record numbers of British homeowners are switching to fixed rate mortgages.
Forum Brief: Housing information packs
Policy Consultation 22 July 2003
MPs have said that the government's plans for home information packs may not have been properly piloted.
Forum Brief: Interest rates
Policy Consultation 10 July 2003
The Bank of England has announced a quarter point cut in interest rates.
Forum Brief: Endowment Mortgages
Policy Consultation 23 June 2003
Thousands more homebuyers who are relying on endowment policies to repay their mortgages are to be warned by the Financial Services Authority that the policies are unlikely to produce the
Forum Brief: Euro decision
Policy Consultation 9 June 2003
Following Gordon Brown's announcement earlier this month that Britain is not yet ready to join the euro, John McFall, chairman of the Treasury select committee, has responded to ePolitix.com Forum
Forum Brief: House prices
Policy Consultation 22 April 2003
The latest statistics have suggested that the housing market has remained strong.
Peter Williams - deputy director general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders
Stakeholder Interview 16 April 2003
Question: John Prescott recently unveiled his communities plan. What was the CML's reaction?
Forum Brief: Draft Housing Bill
Policy Consultation 31 March 2003
Home information packs are a central feature of a wide-ranging package of measures in the draft Housing Bill.
Forum Brief: Housing market
Policy Consultation 20 February 2003
The proportion of new lending accounted for by remortgaging broke through the 50 per cent mark in January for the first time on record, according to figures from the Council
Forum Brief: Interest rates
Policy Consultation 6 February 2003
The Bank of England has announced a quarter point cut in interest rates.
Forum Brief: Housing plan
Policy Consultation 5 February 2003
A massive house-building programme has been unveiled by the government.
Forum Brief: Personal debt
Policy Consultation 5 February 2003
The DTI's task force on overindebtedness has issued its second report.
Forum Brief: Pre-Budget Report - Economy
Policy Consultation 28 November 2002
The chancellor is to increase government borrowing to plug the gap caused by a faltering world economy.
Forum Brief: Flooding insurance
Policy Consultation 27 September 2002
Over 200,000 people may find that their homes are uninsurable and unsellable after insurers said yesterday they could not continue to release flood insurance for some properties.
Forum Brief: Endowment mortgages
Policy Consultation 27 September 2002
The Consumers' Association has claimed that up to five million homeowners with endowment mortgages could be entitled to compensation for mis-selling.
