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• Delinquencies in UK buy-to-let mortgages fall
  

  Published 14th Aug 2009

  The number of delinquencies on UK buy-to-let mortgages has fallen for the first time in two years as borrowers have taken advantage of low interest rates to pay back arrears

• Negative equity affects around 2m households
  

  Published 14th Aug 2009

  Up to 3.5 million UK households are unable to move because they have insufficient equity in their homes or can't get a mortgage, according to a leading broker

• The family of nine travellers living in a £1m home paid for by the taxpayer
  

  Published 12th Aug 2009

  A family of travellers is living in a £1million house at taxpayers' expense

• Berkeley Homes: Buyers trapped in mortgage nightmare
  

  Published 10th Aug 2009

  They put down big deposits on flats which slumped in value

• Property agent Dylan Harvey Residential fails with £6.5m in deposits
  

  Published 05th Aug 2009

  About 500 investors who put down deposits of as much as £20,000 for apartments in the North West have been hit by the collapse yesterday of a Lancashire-based property company

• In a fix over trackers: Rising prices signal a new dilemma for homeowners
  

  Published 04th Aug 2009

  The housing market continues to show signs of recovery, but experts reckon it is too early to say if it will be sustained and predict there will be no rise in interest rates when the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee meets this week to decide if the base rate should stay at 0.5 per cent

• Bin police to fine households £80 if they fill more than one bin in two weeks
  

  Published 04th Aug 2009

  Homeowners who produce more than one wheelie bin full of waste will be fined, say a council who introduced fortnightly collections