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		<title>Some borrowers can still get good deals on mortgages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Industry professionals have stated that despite the chaos that seems to have hit the mortgage markets, and the reports of doom and gloom when it comes to getting a mortgage, there are still some affordable deals on offer to many consumers.
Officials from mform described the panic in relation to the mortgage market as &#8216;overdone&#8217;, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PM meets with UK bank chiefs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, met with bank chiefs on Tuesday morning in order to discuss a number of factors relating to the credit crunch, including the housing and mortgage sectors, and their effect on the economy.
The meeting held at Downing Street included chiefs from HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Nationwide. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thriftymortgages.co.uk/2008/05/pm-meets-with-uk-bank-chiefs.html</link>
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		<title>Queen&#8217;s party cancelled over recession fears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With consumers struggling to pay their mortgages, many facing repossession, rising living costs and bills, and the country on the verge of recession the nation could be forgiven for thinking that the lavish celebrations that the Royal family had in mind for the Queen&#8217;s diamond wedding anniversary would be insensitive and unnecessary, stinging like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thriftymortgages.co.uk/2008/05/queens-party-cancelled-over-recession-fears.html</link>
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		<title>House prices fall for sixth consecutive month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent report house prices in the UK have fallen for the sixth consecutive month, which has resulted in house price growth stalling in the month of March.
Over the past year the average house price in England and Wales has increased by only0.4% which puts the average house price at just £174,100 according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tories try to get HIPs voted out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Conservative Party is reportedly trying to force a vote in the Commons to try and oust the controversial Home Information Packs that were brought in by the Labour government last year.
Whilst government officials have tried to claim that the packs are invaluable to home sellers and purchasers to make the process smoother and more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thriftymortgages.co.uk/2008/04/tories-try-to-get-hips-voted-out.html</link>
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		<title>£5000 drop in house prices for March</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent report there was a drop of £5000 on the average house price in the UK in March. Last month saw house prices take the biggest monthly fall since the housing market crash in the 1990s, with a fall of 2.5%.
In September of 1993 house prices fell by 3% in the space [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thriftymortgages.co.uk/2008/04/5000-drop-in-house-prices-for-march.html</link>
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		<title>Two year mortgage range withdrawn by Co-operative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over recent months an increasing number of mortgage providers have been withdrawing various mortgage deals from the shelves, tightening up on lending criteria, and closing the doors to new customers.
This has resulted from the effects of the global credit crunch, which has made it very difficult for mortgage lenders to get the finance that they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thriftymortgages.co.uk/2008/04/two-year-mortgage-range-withdrawn-by-co-operative.html</link>
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		<title>Two year fixed rate deal withdrawn by Alliance and Leicester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the global credit crunch, which has seen many banks and building societies withdrawing a range of their mortgage deals and tightening up on lending criteria, the Alliance and Leicester has announced that it is withdrawing its two year fixed rate mortgage.
Officials from the building society have stated that the reason behind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thriftymortgages.co.uk/2008/04/two-year-fixed-rate-deal-withdrawn-by-alliance-and-leicester.html</link>
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		<title>Troubled mortgage lender to be shrunk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to recent reports the chief executive of what was once the fifth largest mortgage lender in the nation has decided to scale down operations to try and halve the size of the bank.
Northern Rock hit problems last year after it became widely known that it had taken an emergency loan from the Bank of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thriftymortgages.co.uk/2008/04/troubled-mortgage-lender-to-be-shrunk.html</link>
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		<title>Mortgage lender pledges to repay loan within next couple of years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recently nationalised mortgage lender Northern Rock has promised that it will repay its state debt of £24 billion by 2010. This is despite the fact that it has been warned that it will not even start to break even for at least three years.
In 2007 the mortgage lender suffered pre-tax losses of £167.6 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thriftymortgages.co.uk/2008/04/mortgage-lender-pledges-to-repay-loan-within-next-couple-of-years.html</link>
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