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• Lloyds loan with a sting in the tail
  

  Published 19th May 2010

  LLOYDS BANKING GROUP last week launched a two-year tracker mortgage for first-time buyers with a payment shock in the second year

• Tax rise may hit buy-to-let revival
  

  Published 19th May 2010

  The Government’s plans to raise capital gains tax (CGT) from 18 per cent to up to 40 per cent on second homes came just as confidence appeared to be returning to the buy-to-let market

• 45,000 families are 'just coping' with mortgage repayments
  

  Published 14th May 2010

  More than 45,000 families are 'just coping' with their mortgage repayments and could easily lose their home, experts warned today

• First-time buyers hit by fresh lending drought as banks clamp down on interest-only mortgages
  

  Published 14th May 2010

  A new lending drought by banks who hand out 'cheap' mortgages to cash-strapped homeowners and first-time buyers was brewing yesterday

• King: low rates to stay 2011.'
  

  Published 13th May 2010

  Sterling retreated sharply after the Bank of England hinted rates could stay at historic lows of 0.5pc for at least another year

• Poor UK housing costing NHS dear
  

  Published 04th May 2010

  Poor housing costs the NHS more than £2bn a year in treating people suffering from a wide range of illnesses linked directly to living in cold, damp and often dangerous homes, according to a new study..

• British Gas customers face end of price freeze
  

  Published 29th Apr 2010

  A five-year price freeze is due to end for 460,000 British Gas customers, leaving them in a bind as to what to do next