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 2 September 2008 by
According to The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) just over 289,000 mortgages were granted to home buyers in the first half of this year in the UK and 50,000 (17%) of these buyers would have benefited if the new tax regime had...
Category: House and home, Miscellaneous, Property market
Posted on 2 September 2008 by
The only good thing about today’s announcement from the Government on stamp duty is that it clears the air. The inept leak that they were considering doing something on stamp duty had the totally predictable effect of causing a...
Category: House and home, Miscellaneous, Property market
Posted on 1 September 2008 by
The latest figures from the Government show that stamp duty land tax on residential properties raised £6.4bn in 2006/07, having increased by 140% from £2.7bn in 2001/02, powered not only by the increase in property prices but...
Category: House and home, Miscellaneous, Property market
Posted on 12 August 2008 by
I note that Paul Broadhead, the Deputy Director General of AHIPP, the Association of HIP Providers, has resigned to take up the new position of Head of Mortgage Policy at The Building Societies Association in November.
It will...
Category: HIPs, House and home, Property market
Posted on 12 August 2008 by
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) monthly survey of the housing market out today is headlined "Tentative signs that housing activity may be nearing a floor." This would have been a very sensible...
Category: House and home, Property market
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