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		<title>Fixed-rate mortgage</title>
		<link>http://bankingonbanks.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fixed-rate-mortgage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Mortgage with a fixed rate is a mortgage where the interest stays the same throughout the period of repayment. Mortgage with a fixed rate are sometimes more money-demanding than other varieities of big home loan, and this is because of the risk involved. To let you see this, if someone gets a Mortgage &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=37&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Mortgage with a fixed rate is a mortgage where the interest stays the same throughout the period of repayment.</p>
<p>Mortgage with a fixed rate are sometimes more money-demanding than other varieities of big home loan, and this is because of the risk involved. To let you see this, if someone gets a Mortgage &#8211; fixed-rate when the base rate is 5%, and then the base rate leaps to 11%, the lenders will be missing out on 6% of interest &#8211; so they may occasionally charge a little extra to compensate for this.</p>
<p>Mortgage &#8211; fixed-rate are fairly popular when the base rate is low, and can be good for a  person who wants to know how much they will be spending each month.</p>
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		<title>Mortgage with a fixed rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Mortgage of the fixed-rate variety is a mortgage where the interest stays the same throughout the length of the deal. Mortgage with a fixed rate are sometimes more costly than other types of mortgage, and this is because of the risk involved. To show this, if someone gets a Fixed-rate mortgage when the base [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=35&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Mortgage of the fixed-rate variety is a mortgage where the interest stays the same throughout the length of the deal.</p>
<p>Mortgage with a fixed rate are sometimes more costly than other types of mortgage, and this is because of the risk involved. To show this, if someone gets a Fixed-rate mortgage when the base rate is 5%, and then the base rate increases to 11%, the home loan lender will be missing out on 6% of interest &#8211; so they may generally charge a little extra to cover for this.</p>
<p>Fixed-rate mortgage are fairly popular when the base rate is low, and can be good for a human being who wants to know how much they will be spending on a monthly basis.</p>
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		<title>Credit panic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[credit worries relates to owing pounds. There are several types of debt debt issues, including credit cards, store cards and overdrafts. A credit card lets people to buy things based on their promise that they will pay the money for them when the balance is ready to be paid. A store card is a card [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=33&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>credit worries relates to owing pounds. There are several types of debt debt issues, including credit cards, store cards and overdrafts.</p>
<p>A credit card lets people to buy things based on their promise that they will pay the money for them when the balance is ready to be paid.</p>
<p>A store card is a card that normally comes with a particularly big interest rate, they are often offered to folk when they are buying items in particular outlets &#8211; and can regularly provide their people the handiness of being able to pay one pot of pennies at the end of the  calender month.</p>
<p>An overdraft is when the account man takes even more pennies from a bank account than has been deposited in it &#8211; in other words &#8211; the individual takes cash they don&#8217;t possess.</p>
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		<title>Variable-rate mortgages &#8216;rising in popularity&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popularity of variable-rate mortgages has increased, new figures from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) show. According to the body, 60 per cent of outstanding mortgages are this type of product, which is a rise on the 51 per cent recorded a year ago. Responding to the statistics, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=31&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The popularity of variable-rate mortgages has increased, new figures from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) show.</p>
<p>According to the body, 60 per cent of outstanding mortgages are this type of product, which is a rise on the 51 per cent recorded a year ago.</p>
<p>Responding to the statistics, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) &#8211; which claims its members account for around 98 per cent of UK residential mortgage lending &#8211; said they demonstrate how popular they are.</p>
<p>In addition, the organisation suggested, they indicate that many people coming to the end of fixed-rate loans are transferring to variable rates because they are attractive.</p>
<p>CML director general Michael Coogan remarked: &#8220;The majority of the population have been choosing to stay on their standard variable rates or move to trackers, rather than take out fixed-rate mortgages.&#8221;</p>
<p>The FSA also revealed that the proportion of mortgages with arrears of more than 1.5 per cent stood at 2.57 per cent during the third quarter of the year.</p>
<p>Anyone looking to make their unsecured debts easier to manage so they can focus more on their mortgage debt could consider a <a href="http://www.firstdebtconsolidation.co.uk">debt consolidation loan</a>.</p>
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		<title>Dealing with festive debt</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is generally seen as a time to spend lots of money on food and presents and have a fantastic few days or weeks with your friends and family. But when the festivities are over, it&#8217;s likely you&#8217;ll end up with a pile of huge credit card and other bills to pay in the new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=29&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christmas is generally seen as a time to spend lots of money on food and presents and have a fantastic few days or weeks with your friends and family.</p>
<p>But when the festivities are over, it&#8217;s likely you&#8217;ll end up with a pile of huge credit card and other bills to pay in the new year &#8211; some of which you might not be able to clear immediately &#8211; so you may want to consider <a href="http://www.firstdebtconsolidation.co.uk">debt consolidaiton</a>.</p>
<p>So how do you deal with this situation &#8211; and how can you avoid it in the first place?</p>
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		<title>Cut the cost of Christmas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important things to do to cut the cost of Christmas is to shop around for the best deals on festive gifts to avoid the murky pit of debt and its associated problems. Doing so over the internet can be a good way of cutting costs, as some of the cheapest products [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=27&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most important things to do to cut the cost of Christmas is to shop around for the best deals on festive gifts to avoid the murky pit of debt and its associated problems.</p>
<p>Doing so over the internet can be a good way of cutting costs, as some of the cheapest products can be found online &#8211; Which? says that significant savings can be made on the web when it comes to electronics in particular, so make sure you take the time to compare items on different websites and ensure you factor the price of delivery into your calculations.</p>
<p>Another way to slash Christmas debt is to get into the habit of saving regularly over the course of a year &#8211; although savings clubs are not always the best way of doing this, says moneysupermarket.com.</p>
<p>Such schemes can mean that members will not benefit from interest and that they may be overcharged for presents come Christmastime.</p>
<p>However you choose to finance Christmas, make sure you seek debt advice should you unexpectedly fall into the red and cannot find a way out of it.</p>
<p>Money advice charities and debt management companies are among the organisations that could help you &#8211; but it&#8217;s up to you to take that first step as soon as possible to avoid your debt problems getting even worse.</p>
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		<title>Mortgage lending &#8216;remains steady&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bankingonbanks.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/mortgage-lending-remains-steady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage lending provided by building societies remained steady in October, an industry body has revealed. According to the Building Societies Association (BSA), the gross value of such lending during the 31-day period totalled £1,666 million, which was similar to the £1,605 million provided in September. Meanwhile, the value of building society approvals last month was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=25&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mortgage lending provided by building societies remained steady in October, an industry body has revealed.</p>
<p>According to the Building Societies Association (BSA), the gross value of such lending during the 31-day period totalled £1,666 million, which was similar to the £1,605 million provided in September.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the value of building society approvals last month was recorded at £1,565 million.</p>
<p>Adrian Coles, director-general of the BSA &#8211; which represents the interests of building societies to external bodies including government departments and regulators &#8211; said &#8220;modest improvements&#8221; have occurred in the housing market over recent months.</p>
<p>However, he added: &#8220;Funding conditions remain difficult and the supply of properties to the market is low, frustrating any increase in demand for house purchase.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Coles went on to suggest that lending activity in the UK&#8217;s property market is likely to remain depressed until funding and supply conditions improve, making it easier for consumers to access finance.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;More landlords&#8217; enquiring about mortgages</title>
		<link>http://bankingonbanks.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/more-landlords-enquiring-about-mortgages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of landlords and potential landlords making mortgage enquiries has risen, it has been suggested. According to Michael Aglony, marketing manager at Mortgages for Business, such enquiries have increased over recent months. However, the number of mortgage products available has fallen &#8220;significantly&#8221;, he added. Mr Aglony stated: &#8220;It is becoming a bit more stable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=23&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The number of landlords and potential landlords making mortgage enquiries has risen, it has been suggested.</p>
<p>According to Michael Aglony, marketing manager at Mortgages for Business, such enquiries have increased over recent months.</p>
<p>However, the number of mortgage products available has fallen &#8220;significantly&#8221;, he added.</p>
<p>Mr Aglony stated: &#8220;It is becoming a bit more stable now but, because so many lenders have had to drop out of the game, it has only left a couple of major lenders. They don&#8217;t have a reason to compete.&#8221;</p>
<p>The market needs a new lender to enter and &#8220;stir up a bit of competition&#8221;, he claimed.</p>
<p>Another factor which may work to the advantage of buy-to-let investors in terms of the number of products available to them is the fact that over the next few months, lenders may be trying to meet targets for the end of year, he added.</p>
<p>Recently, David Hollingworth, head of communications at L&amp;C Mortgages, suggested that more consumers may be tempted to apply for mortgages between now and the end of December as the end of the stamp duty holiday approaches.</p>
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		<title>Mortgages &#8216;being helped by savings rates&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bankingonbanks.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/mortgages-being-helped-by-savings-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage rates have decreased over the last month as a result of improved saving levels, one expert has indicated. Ray Boulger, spokesman for John Charcol, said that before the economic downturn, large increases in lender swap rates &#8211; as seen recently &#8211; would have led to fixed and tracker mortgage rates rising. However, this was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=21&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mortgage rates have decreased over the last month as a result of improved saving levels, one expert has indicated.</p>
<p>Ray Boulger, spokesman for John Charcol, said that before the economic downturn, large increases in lender swap rates &#8211; as seen recently &#8211; would have led to fixed and tracker mortgage rates rising.</p>
<p>However, this was not the case through October, with Mr Boulger stating that savers are effectively giving borrowers a helping hand.</p>
<p>&#8220;Savings rates are now funding much more mortgage lending,&#8221; he remarked, adding that the undoubted increase in market competition has also contributed to the trend.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggested that there is more money in the mortgage market now than earlier in the year, pointing to the latest Bank of England figures that showed net lending rose by £922 million in September.</p>
<p>Mr Boulger added that the economic picture is now looking better for mortgage borrowers.</p>
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		<title>Adviser of the debt variety</title>
		<link>http://bankingonbanks.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/adviser-of-the-debt-variety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Adviser who advises about debt is money problem expert who can assist bodies with their money worry. Helpers who help with debt are in general trained to a high standard bodies who know a lot about financial mess up &#8211; for example, how financial wrong doings&#8217;works&#8217;, and how to become financial wrong doingsfree. bodies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bankingonbanks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8652823&amp;post=19&amp;subd=bankingonbanks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Adviser who advises about debt is money problem expert who can assist bodies with their money worry.</p>
<p>Helpers who help with debt are in general trained to a high standard bodies who know a lot about financial mess up &#8211; for example, how financial wrong doings&#8217;works&#8217;, and how to become financial wrong doingsfree.</p>
<p>bodies go to Person who helps those with difficulties with their money when they are in debt problemand want to become debt problemfree. Some bodies will go to a Adviser who advises about debt as soon as their money worry is becoming out of hand, while others will wait around until they are problem solving with huge masses of financial wrong doings before they search for assistance.</p>
<p>Experienced Helper who help with debt have dealt with a lot of humans in the past, and this will help them develop a lot of useful knowledge they can use to help more bodies in debt worry.</p>
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