2008 Archived News Items

January

Featured News items

1. House prices stage end-of-year comeback 

2. Tokyo shares outlook - Lower on Wall Street's fall, housing market concerns 

3. BarCap co-president goes in latest crunch

February

Featured News items

1. Freddie Mac would isolate jumbo loans in MBS 

2. Hope Now: 8 percent of borrowers helped 

3. Sainsbury’s Life Insurance offers 5% online discount

March

Featured News items

1. Is buy-to-let on the brink of collapse?

2. Five tactics to beat the taxman

3. House prices for 2008

April

Featured News items

1. Where commercial property goes, so goes housing. A nasty fall could be near

2. Credit squeeze to intensify, says Bank of England

3. One-third of pre-foreclosure sales fail - survey

May

Featured News items

1. The end of a wonderful innings

2. Comment: Maybe this time

3. Frenzy of risky mortgages leaves path of destruction

June

Featured News items

1. Customer satisfaction ranks lenders

2. PMPA’s member firms retained

3. Network Data hits the road

July

Featured News items

1. Home ownership 'out of reach' for average earners

2. Fixed rate mortgages now averaging 6.63 per cent

3. Commercial Property: Birmingham office of DTZ stands firm

August

Featured News items

1. Bidders close in on ailing Paragon

2.Don’t Meddle With Stamp Duty!

3. Property bargains in Florida may not be all they seem