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
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 5 July 2008 by
In her "Jessica Investigates" page of today's Daily Telegraph Jessica Gorst-Williams replies to 7 readers' letters complaining about financial institutions. Of these over 50% (4 to be precise) were complaints about Abbey.
I...
Category: Miscellaneous, Mortgages, Personal finance
Posted on 27 February 2008 by
Extract from today’s HBOS report to the Stock Exchange with their 2007 figures:
"Regulatory intervention is an ongoing feature of UK retail banking and changes could affect the profitability of our business," the bank warned....
Category: Mortgages, Personal finance, Regulation
Posted on 13 February 2008 by
Yesterday's repossession figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) for the second half of 2007 are encouraging as the CML had forecast as recently as November last year that repossessions would total 30,000 for the...
Category: House and home, Interest rates, Mortgages, Personal finance, Property market
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