Rise in Overdue Mortgage Payments

In the first three months of this year more than a fifth of homebuyers in the UK, who have a chequered credit history, have fallen behind on their mortgage payments and even those with top-quality ratings have seen a statistically significant rise in delinquencies. New research from Standard & Poor’s is based on the behaviour of homebuyers, whose loans have been packed in to mortgage-backed-securities, accounting for 80 percent of the £43bn sub-prime mortgage market. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-25 03:11:53

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The European Privacy Partnership warns that consumers may lose more that their credit rating if they default on loans; jobs are at stake

This month's UK bankruptcy figures show that UK business and individuals are still choosing bankruptcy as a seemingly easy way out of debt problems ... and employers often check credit history to ascertain an applicant's reliability or risk rating. In many ... may be refused employment due to a bad credit rating."In the current climate perfectly honest [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 18:32:00

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