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Libor rates latest
The important three-month sterling Libor rose from 0.65219 % to 0.65281%, announced on Monday, 19 April. It fell to a record low of 0.54% on 28 September, bobbed around that mark for a while and then began to edge higher. It has stabilised a little (...)
House prices up 1.1% in March, latest Halifax survey shows
House prices increased by 1.1% in March, partly reversing the 1.6% fall recorded the previous month, according to the latest house price index from mortgage lender Halifax. This means that the value of the average home in England and Wales is now 5 (...)
Mortgage approvals jump
Mortgage lending jumped to £11.5bn in March, a 24% rise from February the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said. The figure was also 3% up on March last year, when the market had reached its nadir in the wake of the credit crunch. Despite this r (...)
House prices up 2.6% in April, says Rightmove
House prices continue to rise, with sellers ignoring pre-election uncertainties and putting up asking prices in April by 2.6 per cent – or £5898 – compared with March, according to property website Rightmove. Prices are running 6 per cent higher (...)
Interest rates kept at 0.5%
The Bank of England left the UK economy to weave its own course back to normality today, leaving monetary policy unchanged. As expected, the bank rate was kept at 0.5% for the 13th month running and the monetary policy committee left unaltered the (...)