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    <title>UK Mortgage, loan, finance and property news August 2008.</title>
    <description>Mortgage-loan-UK bring you the most topical and current relevant news within the industry. From mortgage and loan news and current regulations, to reporting on the fluctuations within the property market and rates. Syndicate our news.</description>
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      <title>Buy-to-let investors staring at negative equity</title>
      <description>Around 200,000 buy-to-let investors have lost up to 90 per cent of the cash they put into their properties, new research has shown. With house prices falling at their fastest rate since records began in 1973, these losses look set to get even bigger</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:35:08 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Buy-to-let yields at highest level in over 2 years</title>
      <description>The buy-to-let market was still looking healthy in June, thanks to a combination of strong tenant demand and steady rents, says Paragon Mortgages. The average annual rental income growth eased slightly from just under 12 per cent in May to</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:44:17 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Commercial property provides a glimmer</title>
      <description>There are signs that the commercial property sector is emerging from the doldrums, with the launch of an investment trust and Scottish Widows lifting the redemption period on its funds. Commercial loan funding of 30m GBP from Royal Bank of Scotland</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:45:24 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Fire service left with headache of 10m GBP loan</title>
      <description>South Wales Fire and Rescue Service has been saddled with a 10m GBP loan after the sale of its headquarters collapsed, its departing chief fire officer has revealed. The service took out the bridging loan to buy and refit its new headquarters, at the</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:46:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Mortgage Lenders to hasty to repossess</title>
      <description>The number of house repossessions by mortgage lenders climbed by 40% to more than 9000 in the first quarter of the year, new official figures have confirmed. The figures from the FSA (Financial Services Authority) appear to suggest a much greater </description>
      <link>http://www.mortgage-loan-uk.net/news/mortgage_lenders_too_hasty_to_repossess.php</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:19:15 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>NLA proposes draft sale and rentback code</title>
      <description>The National Landlords Association (NLA), is asking for opinions on its draft Code of Practice for landlords involved in the somewhat controversial sale and rent back market. The draft Code can be downloaded in full from www.nlarentback.org.uk</description>
      <link>http://www.mortgage-loan-uk.net/news/NLA_proposes_draft_sale_and_rentback_code.php</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:47:02 +0100</pubDate>
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