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• First-time buyer stamp duty break may go
  

  Published 25th Jun 2010

  The Government is 'reviewing' the stamp duty break for first-time buyers up to £250,000, which could see it fail to become a permanent fixture

• Mortgage warning for unmarried couples as ex-partner gets half of house
  

  Published 21st Jun 2010

  Unmarried couples who split up could be in for a nasty shock about who owns their home: appeal judges have ruled that a man who left his partner 17 years ago was entitled to a half share in the house even though he had never paid the mortgage

• Borrowers face new hurdles as lenders bring in tougher rules
  

  Published 02nd Jun 2010

  Buyers returning to the housing market and homeowners trying to remortgage face an increasingly complex maze of rules and criteria imposed by mortgage lenders

• Fix now before mortgages soar
  

  Published 02nd Jun 2010

  BORROWERS have been warned that mortgage costs could soar over the next two years even if Bank rate remains on hold, pushing up repayments by as much as £3,000 a year on a £200,000 home loan

• Cheap variable rates starting to bite the dust
  

  Published 02nd Jun 2010

  Banks and building societies are buckling under the financial pressure of cheap standard variable rates

• Homeowners urged to remortgage as equity levels rebound
  

  Published 26th May 2010

  Homeowners who bought their homes between 2006 and 2008 can potentially switch to cheaper loans because the equity in their properties has substantially increased over the past year

• US lenders plan to sell $2bn of distressed loans and properties
  

  Published 24th May 2010

  US commercial real estate lenders Wells Fargo & Co and LNR Property are each looking to sell around $1bn of distressed commercial real estate loans and assets, Bloomberg reported today