Ray Boulger's Blog
Ray Boulger is widely renowned as the guru of the mortgage industry and expert on the housing market. Ray is constantly called upon by the media to provide informed comment on all areas of the market, and is a regular on the BBC, Sky and ITV.
Last year, Ray was voted guru of the year at the Headlinemoney awards by all of the nation’s money and property journalists. As such, we thought it was high time that you had direct access to him. Ray’s blog will be updated most days so the knowledge just keeps on coming.
Posted on 30 May 2007 by
Ananova reports an interesting punishment to fit the crime for a landlord in the USA who was not treating his tenants fairly:
A US landlord has been ordered to live in one of his apartment buildings with no heating or hot water....
Category: Buy to let, Property market
Posted on 29 May 2007 by
An analysis of the lending figures for home purchase produced by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) demonstrates very clearly that the impact of the current series of Bank Rate rises which started in August last year started...
Posted on 26 May 2007 by
Following this week's publication of the minutes of May's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting the market immediately racheted up its expectations on rate rises, with more economists now forecasting Bank Rate will...
Posted on 25 May 2007 by
I am doing an interview for News 24 tomorrow at 10.40. a.m. on the current situation around HIPs.
Meanwhile DCLG has today sent a letter to Home Inspectors and Energy Assessors updating them on the situation. Click here if you...
Category: HIPs, Property market
Posted on 25 May 2007 by
When asked at Wednesday morning’s lobby briefing if the Government was confident of meeting the revised 1 August HIPs deadline, in view of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) saying there should be a 12 week...
Category: HIPs
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