Ray Boulger's Blog

Ray Boulger is widely renowned as the guru of the mortgage industry and expert on the housing market. Ray is constantly called upon by the media to provide informed comment on all areas of the market, and is a regular on the BBC, Sky and ITV.
Last year, Ray was voted guru of the year at the Headlinemoney awards by all of the nation’s money and property journalists. As such, we thought it was high time that you had direct access to him. Ray’s blog will be updated most days so the knowledge just keeps on coming.
09/10/2007 by
Gordon Brown’s final Budget report as Chancellor disappointingly held out no promise of any moves to make the current stamp duty land tax fair, or even less unfair. Alisdair Darling has gone very little further in today’s <link...
Categories: Mortgages, Personal finance, House and home, Miscellaneous
09/10/2007 by
When announcing his proposals on IHT in today’s pre-budget report Alistair Darling said that he would invest the £2 billion he had “saved” in health and education.” The only problem with this is that his proposals actually cost...
Categories: Personal finance, Miscellaneous
18/09/2007 by
The problems in the banking market look like developing into a serious political problem for the Government. This has the makings of being Gordon Brown’s equivalent of the Tory’s Black Wednesday 15 years ago, when on 16 September...
Categories: Bank of England, Regulation, Miscellaneous
12/09/2007 by
Victoria Mortgages, or to quote its full name, Victoria Mortgage Funding No 1 Limited, went into administration on Monday 10 September. Although the home page of...
Categories: Mortgages, Miscellaneous
01/09/2007 by
Halifax today issued an interesting press release entitled: "UK economy prospers since sterling's ERM exit 15 years ago." ...
Categories: Bank of England, Regulation, Miscellaneous, Interest rates
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