Housing finance
Bank of England to cap mortgages from October
28 Jun 2014
Taking a chance with better bankruptcy protection
24 Jun 2014
New research finds increased personal bankruptcy protection pre-2005 led to increase in household debt, but without measurable increase in average defaults. By MIT's Felipe Severino, from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Venkaiah Naidu promises cheaper home loans
29 May 2014
One “villain” of the housing crisis played only a small role
04 Mar 2014
One of the major factors blamed for the sub prime mortgage crisis may have actually played only a minor role in the housing meltdown, new research by Itzhak Ben-David, an author of the study and assistant professor of finance at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, suggests
Fannie Mae posts record net income of $84 bn; pays back taxpayers' money
22 Feb 2014
US mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said yesterday it would pay the US Treasury $7.2 billion in dividends in March 2014, taking its payback to a total of $121.1 billion