
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Homes but no loans. Despite the threat of a new slide in house prices and rising levels of negative equity, the number of property-buyers having their homes repossessed has declined over the past year. But now many economists predict interest rates will rise in the course of 2011, fuelling fears that Britain's housing market could be facing a double dip. With banks chasing profits and affordable mortgages harder to find. Michael Robinson asks what impact the new housing freeze will have on Britain's already battered economy.
By BBC Radio 44.3
3232 ratings
Homes but no loans. Despite the threat of a new slide in house prices and rising levels of negative equity, the number of property-buyers having their homes repossessed has declined over the past year. But now many economists predict interest rates will rise in the course of 2011, fuelling fears that Britain's housing market could be facing a double dip. With banks chasing profits and affordable mortgages harder to find. Michael Robinson asks what impact the new housing freeze will have on Britain's already battered economy.

7,583 Listeners

375 Listeners

887 Listeners

1,045 Listeners

32 Listeners

5,463 Listeners

1,801 Listeners

1,764 Listeners

1,047 Listeners

106 Listeners

778 Listeners

77 Listeners

72 Listeners

82 Listeners

624 Listeners

3,187 Listeners

166 Listeners

720 Listeners

256 Listeners

1,633 Listeners

54 Listeners

64 Listeners

33 Listeners

49 Listeners

40 Listeners