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Britain’s property market weakening fast

The Nationwide Building Society recently published figures showing that in March 2008, house prices fell 0.6 per cent which follows on from a 0.5 per cent drop the previous month. This has caused many experts in the property field to take this as a sign ... Read >
Author: Daniel Collins

Home Insurance

Nationwide Building Society has announced that it will offer a 20% discount immediately, and then in the subsequent year, on combined buildings and contents insurance as a reward for loyalty from its customers. If new customers purchase services online, t... Read >
Author: Monica

Rising Defaults And Chaos in The Money Markets

According to ‘The Nationwide Building Society', if house buyers in London want to avoid paying higher interest rates, they would have to stump up fairly higher deposit on a mortgage. The past indicates that the Nationwide put down a deposit of 10% or mo... Read >
Author: Jim Brown

Bank charges finally ruled unfair?

Bank charges are once again making the headlines with the news of a verdict on the test case launched by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) against seven major banks in July 2007. The test case verdict went in favour of the OFT and could result in bank ... Read >
Author: pmcindoe

Mortgage Approvals Increase

Mortgage approvals unexpectedly increased in January as house prices continued to fall. The Bank of England has released new data showing there were 74,000 mortgage approvals in January, which was up 2,000 from December. That month's figure of 72,000 was ... Read >
Author: Drew Swainston

Shared Equity Mortgages Designed To Help Key Workers

The concept of shared equity is that you buy a portion of a property and rent the rest. Local authorities and house builders can offer shared equity homes. You still need a deposit to put down for your purchase, but it is less than normal because it is on... Read >
Author: nickr7

Why credit card companies don't want you to understand your monthly statement

According to research by Nationwide Building Society, over two-thirds of credit card users do not know the order in which their payments are allocated to their account, when it comes to understanding their monthly credit card statement. Most people ele... Read >
Author: Andrew Regan

Selected Achievements of Nationwide Building Society.

Nationwide Building Society, the world's largest building society, is the country's 4th largest mortgage lender and in the top 10 of UK's financial institutions in terms of assets size. Having its start in the 1850's, Nationwide has been able to complete ... Read >
Author: -ddd-

Savers New Year Surprise

The Monetary Policy Committee's decision to increase base rate by a further 0.25 per cent on 11 January caught everybody on the hop, from financial commentators through to the banks and building societies themselves. The rate increases of August and Novem... Read >
Author: Marco Barra

Mortgage approvals are up, and house price inflation slowing, but analysts predict a serious market

According to the Nationwide building society house prices cooled slightly in October; the trend over the past quarter demonstrated by the Halifax also shows a slow down in UK house prices from June through to August. However, Nationwide believes that t... Read >
Author: Andrew Regan

The unforeseen cost of summer holidays.

As you may have noticed, this year's summer has finally arrived in Britain and is asserting its questionable authority (on these shores anyway) more than usual. As such, we are being treated to long, balmy evenings, trips to the seaside, ice cream and the... Read >
Author: Andrew Regan

Frankfurt is the first World cup venue for England, how will you be getting there?

Anyone who owned property during the last house price crash in the early 1990s will remember constant headlines about negative equity and home repossession. Between 1990 and 1996 over a million individuals experienced mortgage repossession as they strug... Read >
Author: sam lowe

The UK house market and how to survive it.

Copyright 2006 Michael Hanna According to the Nationwide Building Society, the UK housing market has made a "strong start" in 2006, with the biggest rise in house prices for 18 months, rising by 1.4% in January. This was seen by the Nationwide as part ... Read >
Author: michael hanna

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