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Buying Your First Home Without Stress
This article addresses many common questions first-time home buyers often ask It is a must read article, with loads of valuable information that will save you both time and money...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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How the Base Rate is Effecting the UK Mortgage Market
The Bank of England has slashed the Base Rate in previous months to an all time low The reasoning behind this was to alleviate some pressure on current home owners and to help rejuvenate the financial economy hoping the banks would begin to lend money again...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The Australian Property Market and the Global Recession
Australia is one of the few countries, along with Canada, who has felt the credit crunch less than the rest of the world...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The New World of Mortgage Lending in the UK
Buying a home in the UK in 2009 is a completely different world from buying a home in 2006 In 2006, individuals were putting accelerator clauses into their mortgage offers, allowing their agent to increase their “final price” by a certain percentage if they were outbid on a property...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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An Overview of UK Mortgages and Remortgages
Living in the United Kingdom can be very expensive Specifically, London is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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When Will the UK Housing Market Turn Around?
The UK housing market is in a recession, the global economy is declining, and the financial world is full of struggles...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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Realise Your Dreams Through Buy to Let
You have a recurring dream about being independently wealthy The term "mailbox money" makes you start to salivate...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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How the Government Injection Should Help the Struggling Mortgage Industry
Since the summer of 2008, there has been practically nothing but uncertainty and fear concerning the UK mortgage market...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The Secret of Making Your Next Home Purchase Carefree
Remember the good old days when you were young and carefree When the only things you had to worry about was what time your favorite cartoon came on (mine was a crazy short lived science fiction cartoon called G-Force) and whether or not your mom was cooking lasagna tonight...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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What Makes a Good Mortgage Broker?
A mortgage broker is essentially an individual or business entity that matches home loans and investment loans with the requirements of their clients...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The Role of Australian Mortgage Brokers
The mortgage broking profession has boomed in Australia during the last fifteen years From humble beginnings the industry has grown at a rate of knots over the past decade or more to a point at which there is currently over ten thousand brokers practicing throughout the country...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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Mortgage Aggregators in Australia
Mortgage lenders in Australia rarely deal with brokers that cannot submit a high volume of successful home loan applications to them each month...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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How to Become a Mortgage Broker in Australia
Becoming a mortgage broker and helping people with their home loans is one of the most intrinsically rewarding finance careers in Australia...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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How the Media is Hurting the UK Mortgage Market
As the majority of people are aware, the entire world began to feel a financial crisis in the summer of 2008...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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All About the Bank Bail Out – Part 4
This is exactly the opposite situation to that which is required in a macro economic situation such as a recession...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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All About the Bank Bail Out – Part 3
Banks and other financial institution were not the only entities to suffer from the credit crunch As borrowed funds became more difficult for other large and small businesses to obtain, the suffering spread...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The Future For Mortgage Brokers – Part 5
Mortgage Brokers in the UK
The mortgage broker industry in the UK has been negatively affected by the credit crunch more than any other country in the world, apart from the USA...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The Future For Mortgage Brokers – Part 6
A return to the days in which almost anyone could pass a few exams and become a successful mortgage broker might help the profession return to the situation in which fraudulent activity becomes widespread once again...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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All About the Bank Bail Out – Part 2
In the UK the credit crunch firmly wrote itself into the history books when one of the largest mortgage lenders in the country – Northern Rock – was nationalised...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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All About the Bank Bail Out – Part 1
The phrase “credit crunch” has been firmly etched into the history books thanks to the countless media stories circulating around the globe over the past few years...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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Is Buy-to-Let Still a Good Investment? – Part 2
Future millionaires were abandoned by the thousand by both mortgage lenders and the property courses that had previously filled their heads full of dreams...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The Future For Mortgage Brokers – Part 4
The independent mortgage broker industry in Australia is still young and should prosper again after the credit crunch...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The Future For Mortgage Brokers – Part 3
Unemployment is certainly a statistic that prudent mortgage brokers should keep an eye on during the coming year and beyond...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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Is Buy-to-Let Still a Good Investment? – Part 1
Rewind a couple of years and the media was awash with stories of property investment successes and buy-to-let miracles...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The State of Self-Certification Mortgages – Part 1
Self-certification mortgages have endured a rollercoaster ride over the last few years It seems only yesterday they were hailed as an innovative product and a Godsend to millions of self-employed workers who failed to reach the requirements of standard home loan products...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The Future For Mortgage Brokers – Part 2
Estate agents, magazines, newspapers, websites, and even mortgage brokers were enticing people to buy almost any property they could get their hands on citing extraordinary historical capital growth rates as a basis for expecting the same growth in future years...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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The Future For Mortgage Brokers - Part 1
It would be hard to find anyone in the Western world who has not head of the credit crunch by now So much has been written and spoken about one of the biggest financial disasters in history that it seems almost as though society has become engulfed in it...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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Adverse Credit Mortgage Investors Seek Help
Major financial institutions which hold billions of pounds in mortgage backed securities have been watching mortgagors default on their home loans in record numbers in recent times...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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Time Heals All Wounds
The current mortgage and loan market has undergone a period of turmoil recently that has been felt all around the world...
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Mortgage Lending Hits a New Low
Approvals for home loans in the UK have hit the lowest level ever recorded for a single month The blame has been set squarely on the credit crunch as lenders are not only finding it difficult to obtain the funds to lend to home owners but they seem unwilling to lend the funds they do have available...
Author: Michael Sterios - Category: Finances
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