UK Mortgages rates and deals

Gordon Brown urges a clean-up of the financial system to ensure “banking responsibility” in the UK and abroad.

For most consumers, owning two homes — and paying two mortgages — is a financial impossibility. That makes trying to time the sale of an existing home with the purchase of a new home all the more stressful. Your best bet in today’s market is to focus on selling your existing home first.

Bank seeks to strengthen its capital buffers to cope with global downturn