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 July 2009 by
Nationwide’s “Real” House price Index recorded an increase of 1.6% in July, the same as June, compared to the seasonally adjusted figure of + 1.3% for July and an upwards revised + 1.0% for June. This is the sixth consecutive...
Category: Bank of England, House and home, Interest rates, Mortgages, Property market
Posted on 27 July 2009 by
The BBC is reporting that Barclays' online banking services were unavailable to some UK customers from 9.30. to 14.00. today owing to a hardware glitch.
A spokesman for the bank said “high volume of demand was also to blame for...
Category: Miscellaneous
Posted on 21 July 2009 by
The FT is reporting that Land Securities is in the process of issuing £360m of Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) with a maximum term of 18 years. The security is a single prime office building in Queen Anne’s Gate,...
Category: Mortgages, Property market
Posted on 21 July 2009 by
As I commented on 15 July economists were expecting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to show how the Fed will exit the biggest monetary expansion in history in his half yearly report to the House Financial Services Committee...
Category: Bank of England, Interest rates
Posted on 21 July 2009 by
I wouldn’t normally comment on each of the new products in a lender’s range but as my previous blogs on Nationwide’s new 1 and 4 year fixes have generated significant interest today, now that I have full details of its new 3 year...
Category: Interest rates, Mortgages
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