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Displaying features tagged with Repossession
Backs to the wall
11 January 2010
More than a million householders are using credit cards to stave off repossession and eviction. But the debt they run up can put their homes at greater risk – and the well-off are being hit for the first time. Tony Marshall reports.
Sold out
18 June 2009
The fall-out from the sub-prime crisis is starting as homeowners irresponsibly sold loans they could never hope to pay back are being found intentionally homeless. Tom Marshall and Bill Rashleigh investigate
Anger in court
20 April 2009
Repossession claims have fallen since the introduction of a new mortgage pre-action protocol in November. But is it really helping homeowners in trouble? Tony Marshall finds worrying evidence that a failure to recognise the protocol could be making things worse, while Jeremy Kuper talks to homeowners at one London court.
Tenants in trouble
15 September 2008
Sold out
08 September 2008
Trouble shared?
08 September 2008
Hidden truth
12 May 2008
The big squeeze
12 May 2008
Do-it-yourself
01 March 2008
Tony Marshall reports on a project where empty homes are being brought back into use for homeless people, by homeless people
Taking the strain
01 January 2008
With buy-to-let landlords feeling the pinch of high mortgage rates, tenants are being left in an increasingly precarious position, reports Tony Marshall
