On the money: The spectre of a fresh global economic crisis means homeowners who are languishing on standard variable-rate mortgages need to switch now, brokers warn... more
Chelsea Building Society launches Britain's cheapest-ever 10-year home loan, amid growing conviction in the money markets that a rate rise is a long way off... more
Fresh signs of the painful squeeze on middle-class finances emerge as runaway inflation bites into homeowners' efforts to clear their mortgage debt... more
Up to 450,000 London homeowners are now stuck in their properties, unable to move because they cannot get a new mortgage to replace their existing loan... more
The Bank of England today left interest rates at their record low of 0.5%, and said it would maintain its £125 billion quantitative easing programme to inject cash into the economy ... more
Analysis: Britain's mortgage market is in crisis. Sir James Crosby's newly published Treasury report says net mortgage lending has slumped so calamitously that it could turn negative... more
With the threat of deflation hanging over an economy edging into recession and job losses set to soar, experts say hundreds of thousands of homes in the capital could be repossessed by 2010... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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