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 7 October 2008 by
In a speech to the National Association for Business Economics in Washington today Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signalled the Fed was ready to cut interest rates in the light of worsening conditions in the credit...
Category: Bank of England, Interest rates
Posted on 7 September 2008 by
On the Andrew Marr show this morning Ed Balls said he understood the Crosby Report was on The Chancellor's desk. On that basis we ought to start getting leaks soon from the Government on any proposals they want to float as being...
Category: Bank of England, House and home, Mortgages, Property market
Posted on 4 September 2008 by
With the Bank of England deciding to leave Bank Rate unchanged @ 5% today the focus will increasingly be on how long we will have to wait for the next cut. After The Chancellor’s frank comments at the weekend that Britain is...
Category: Bank of England, Interest rates
Posted on 16 July 2008 by
If you thought yesterday’s UK CPI figures, up from May’s 3.3% to 3.8% p.a. (compared to a consensus forecast from economists of 3.6%) were bad take a look at the US CPI announced today. Consumer prices in the US increased by a...
Category: Bank of England, Interest rates, Mortgages
Posted on 14 July 2008 by
Alliance & Leicester’ (A&L) proposed take over by Santander is bad news for borrowers in so far as it almost certainly means there will be less choice in future because there will be one less brand in the marketplace. However,...
Category: Bank of England, Miscellaneous, Mortgages
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