December 2012: Currency update

Investors' impatience with the lack of progress on a permanent solution to the Euroland debt crisis (if that's what it still is) has begun to take its toll. From its position at the beginning of October the euro has fallen by more than two US cents....

Thursday, 24 March 2011

French mortgage rates and tips

Mortgage lending across the board through UK lenders has dried up over the past 12-24 months. This has inevitably had an impact on the ease with which British buyers can secure finance through UK banks to purchase holiday homes in France. The days when homeowners released equity from their properties to pay for that dream property in Provence are a distant memory.Rather than using cash or remortgaging their properties in the UK to buy holiday homes in France, the French mortgage is growing in popularity. A combination of falling house prices in the UK eroding the equity that homeowners have in their properties and the UK mortgage market drying up leaving homeowners with very few remortgage options, has seen an increasing number of British buyers turning to a French mortgage as a means of financing...

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