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 9 October 2008 by
Iceland has just announced that it has suspended all trading on its Stock Exchange until Monday.
This suggests to me there is going to be a really major announcement at the weekend. At best perhaps devaluation but possibly...
Category: Miscellaneous
Posted on 7 October 2008 by
Reuters is reporting that Landsbanki has been put in receivership www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUSSAT00564820081007
Category: Miscellaneous, Personal finance
Posted on 7 October 2008 by
Icesave suspended all transfers in and out of their ISAs and other accounts from 7.00. this morning. The following statement is on their web site:
We are not currently processing any deposits or any withdrawal requests through...
Category: Miscellaneous, Personal finance
Posted on 18 September 2008 by
Freddie Mac reported today that the average rate for 30 year fixed rate mortgages fell further this week to stand at 5.78%, down from 6.35%just prior to the Fannie & Freddie nationalisation and the lowest rate since Feb 14. It...
Category: Interest rates, Miscellaneous, Mortgages
Posted on 3 September 2008 by
When presenting yesterday’s package of measures to help home buyers and the housing market Gordon Brown talked about “Help with stamp duty.” This is a bit like a thief saying I am going to help you by not stealing any money from...
Category: House and home, Miscellaneous, Property market
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