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.
Posted on 28 September 2007 by
The figures most widely reported for Nationwide’s September house price index were a monthly increase of 0.7% and a year on year increase of 9.0%. The reason these figures received the most coverage was simply that they were the...
Category: Bank of England, House and home, Interest rates, Property market
Posted on 25 September 2007 by
In his Conference speech yesterday Alastair Darling referred to the Northern Rock situation and said: “No government should ever be in the business of protecting executives who make the wrong call or bad decisions.”
I...
Category: Bank of England, Regulation
Posted on 24 September 2007 by
A good part of Andrew Marr’s interview with the Gordon Brown on BBC1 yesterday morning was given over to the Northern Rock affair. The Prime Minister persistently refused to answer when he personally knew about the problems at...
Category: Bank of England, House and home, Interest rates, Mortgages, Property market
Posted on 18 September 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...
Category: Bank of England, Miscellaneous, Regulation
Posted on 17 September 2007 by
Northern Rock's Sales Director called me on Saturday afternoon with an update and confirmed:
They will continue to seek mortgage applications but have priced their products to ensure a much lower level of applications than...
Category: Bank of England, Mortgages, Regulation
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