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House prices surge in the face of gloomy forecasts

06.10.09
House prices look certain to defy all expert opinion by ending the year up after another surge... more

Credit firms charge British tourists £50 to take out €1,000

10.09.09
British holidaymakers were charged a total of £106million for taking out money with their credit card abroad last month... more

House prices continue to rise

10.09.09
The housing market showed further signs of life today after prices rose for the second month in a row during August ... more

House prices increase for second month in row

10.09.09
House prices rose for the second month in a row in August - fuelling hopes of a rebound in the property market... more

House price rises sign of market recovery

05.08.09
House prices rose by 1.1% during July, a further sign that conditions in the property market are improving, figures from Halifax showed... more

Drop in house prices hits hopes of recovery

08.07.09
House prices slipped last month as signs of a recovery in the market faded ... more

UK house prices fall 1.9 percent in March

03.04.09
House prices in Britain fell 1.9% in March compared to February, dampening the optimism over a separate report earlier this week which said property values had edged higher... more

House price slump is easing, says the Halifax

03.04.09
The fall in house prices is slowing, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender the Halifax said today. The bank, which is now part of Lloyds, said prices fell 1.9  per cent last month... more

House prices and new car sales both slump

05.03.09
The economy was hit by two sets of bad news as house prices and car sales slumped... more

After perfect career City grandee ends in rogues' gallery

11.02.09
Until yesterday City grandee Sir James Crosby appeared to have timed his career path to perfection... more

House prices are back up but further falls on way

05.02.09
Housing: House prices rose for the first time in nearly a year last month but economists warned it did not mark the end of the slump... more

Lloyds moves to calm worry on financing

19.01.09
The new Lloyds Banking Group sought to calm investors, saying its position has not significantly worsened since before Christmas and its core financing ratios have not fallen as some had feared.... more

Grim times at HBOS as merger gets the go-ahead

12.12.08
HBOS painted one of the most dire pictures of the economy to date, as its shareholders met in their hundreds to vote on the bank’s £11.5 billion bailout and takeover by Lloyds TSB... more

Lending rates must come down

05.12.08
The pressure on the banks to pass on yesterday’s interest rate cut to borrowers shows no signs of diminishing... more

Brown assures homeowners he will press banks to pass on rate cut

05.12.08
Gordon Brown has said he would be speaking to banks to press them to pass on the latest interest rate cut to borrowers... more

Halifax ordered to allow tracker loans to drop below 3%

03.12.08
Homeowners with Halifax tracker mortgages should get the full benefit of any interest rate cut this week despite small print that gives the bank the right not to pass it on... more

Halifax and TSB names to disappear

03.11.08
Lloyds TSB will not only drop the TSB from its name but there will be no sign either of Halifax or Bank of Scotland in its monicker once the takeover is voted through. Instead the new enlarged group will quite simply be called Lloyds Banking Group Plc. ... more

House prices fall 13 per cent ... the worst for three decades

09.10.08
House prices have plunged more than 13  per  cent in a year, knocking more than £26,000 off average values... more

HBOS shares leap amid Lloyds hopes

02.10.08
Shares in Halifax and Bank of Scotland owner HBOS jumped another 14% amid growing conviction in the stock market that its £11.7 billion takeover by Lloyds TSB will happen... more

Beleaguered Halifax closes estate agents

22.08.08
Halifax has slammed the door on a quarter of its estate agents as the depressed housing market lurches from bad to worse... more

Freeze on home loans 'set to last another two years'

29.07.08
Former HBOS boss tells Government that there will be no quick fix for the current crisis as mortgage shortage is set to continue into 2010... more

Farewell Prudence, he never even loved you

24.07.08
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City worry as HBOS shares dip again

12.06.08
Fears are rising as shares in HBOS dip for the second time in two days... more

Bellway in profits warning as house prices fall again

05.06.08
Crisis in housing market deepens after Bellway becomes latest builder to issue warning... more

Free rights issue deals to win over HBOS army

04.06.08
Halifax owner will offer its two million-plus small shareholders free dealing in its £4 billion cash call... more

'0.9% drop' as Halifax fuels house price gloom

02.05.08
Mortgage lender said prices are lower than they were a year ago for the first time in more than 12 years... more

HBOS says home-price slide to last two years

29.04.08
Britain's biggest mortgage lender issues shock warning of two years of falling house prices... more

House price bombshell

08.04.08
A slump in house prices five times worse than expected has rocked the property market... more

Grab a mortgage while you can, brokers urge

04.04.08
Homeowners are being urged to grab whatever mortgages they can as lenders continue to scrap deals... more

Don't Bank on rate cuts to get housing escalator moving

04.04.08
It always was an illusion that soaring house prices would make us all rich. Inflation cannot do that. It can only redistribute wealth between the winners and the losers, says Christopher Fildes.... more

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