February 17, 2010
Canada's finance minister proposes changes to mortgage lending …
Borrowers purchasing owner-occupied residential properties which also include some rental units (such as a duplex) will still be able to access government-backed mortgage insurance with a 5% down payment . … The House has approved Obama’s proposal to create the so-called Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Government pressure on banks to make loans in economically-depressed neighborhoods was a key reason for the mortgage meltdown and the financial crisis. …
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Mike Ashley This thing & his mate Chris Ronnie r the reason #JJBSports are in financial crisis!!
Commercial EPCs are even worse: most residential properties are sold through estate agents, who arrange the EPC and publish the details on the property particulars. Commercial properties are often only sold as incidental to the sale of the business itself; nobody ever has any interest in providing or receiving the EPC, except that production of it is a requirement on the standard commercial enquiries raised (inappropriately) by so many lawyers, whjo seem to see themselves as unpaid enforcers of an unwanted law
Bah! Humbug!
Mortgage lending jumped in June –
< to put you in charge of investigating the mortgage meltdown smelled bad from the beginning. >a
Yeh, yeh that’s why he was the finance minister for like 10 years and recieved “the best finance minister” award in 2006 by IMF. The disagreaments b/w Putin and kudrin were well known but they still worked together all that time.