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Consolidate Your Credit Card Debt
With the popularity of plastic money these days, credit cards are gaining immense importance. With growing usage of credit card the number of people in debt and the amount of debt for each of them is also increasing at a fast pace. Almost every...

Credit card debt consolidation
By: CCN.com Some people carry debt on their credit cards due to inability to make payment owing to some emergency expenditure, others carry debt due to excessive or irresponsible expenditure on their credit cards (forgetting that they need...

Debt Consolidation
There are many reasons why people get into debt - some of them self inflicted and some of them way outside of our control. Losing a job, illness or accidents, all of these can suddenly plunge one into unexpected expenditure, and often the only...

Do You Have Debt - Then Don't Save
Humans are funny creatures. We don't always do what's best for us - instead, we do what feels best at the time, and try to blank out any reasons why it might not be the best thing to do. It's called self-justification. Or just plain illogical to...

Getting out of debt is a decision, and it's the right decision! Get yourself out of debt today!
Our society encourages debt, it really does. How so? Simply put, we are encouraged to borrow money, to live beyond our means, to gratify ourselves now so that we can have it all and be happy. But are we happy being in debt? Do we truly get...

 
New Concerns About Debt and the UK Housing Market

According to recently released UK government statistics, the number of mortgage repossession orders in England and Wales has risen by 66% compared with the same three month period in 2004 ("Mortgage possession statistics", publ. UK Department for Constitutional Affairs, 2005). This is equivalent to 20,000 repossession orders over 3 months. The DCA figures are based on twice yearly statistics produced by the UK's Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Since the slowdown in house prices in 2004, there has been a commensurate increase of the number of owners being taken to court for mortgage arrears, rising by over a half to nearly 30,000. Most regions of the UK experienced a decreased rate of growth from an average of over 20% at the start of 2004, to just over 2% at the beginning of 2005. Many economists believe that that this gloomy economic outlook is not as bad as it seems, because the underlying economic factors such as unemployment are still strong, leading to a housing market slowdown rather than


a crunch. Consumer confidence is also high, helped by a Bank of England reduction in UK interest rates to 4.5% in August. However, concerns about debt and the housing market still remain, due to the effects of the five successive interest rate rises between the period of November 2003, and August 2004. It should be borne in mind though, that not all court repossession orders result in a real repossession because the homeowner can still often negotiate a deal with the lender. However, the CML has forecast that at least 10,000 homes will be repossessed before the end of 2005.

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