Guaranteed Rental | Shadow of the eurozone crisis may accelerate a dive in property prices

A difficult spring for the property market could turn into a summer of discontent for house sellers as the eurozone crisis goes from bad to worse. This time of year usually sees a boost in sales as potential buyers begin house hunting but the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show a hefty …

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Guaranteed Rent Income | First-time buyers priced out of London housing market

Housing conundrum: first-time buyers take longer to save for a deposit in London, and higher rents make it more difficult to do so. Photograph: David Levene The vast majority of first-time buyers are priced out of the housing market in London, an economist for one of the UK’s biggest lenders has warned. The house price-to-earnings …

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Guaranteed Rent | Spain hopes to draw European Central Bank into funding Bankia bailout

Bankia’s president, Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri. It has asked Madrid for €19bn in financial support just as a credit rating agency downgraded it to junk status. Photograph: Antonio Heredia/AP Spain’s government plans to force Europe’s central bank into sharing the task of bailing out its troubled financial sector in a potentially controversial move that could spark …

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