(1) However, borrowers looking for new fixed rate deals or homeowners with mortgages linked to money market rates will not necessarily find their mortgage rate decreasing".
(2) The Financial Services Authority today shut the door on so-called liar loans and warned that the days of homeowners remortgaging to splash out on holidays and pay off credit card debts may soon be over.
(3) The £180m a year scheme is to be paid for by a £10.50 levy on all home insurance, from homeowners who are not at elevated risk of flooding as well as those who are.
(4) Ed Mead, a director of estate agency Douglas & Gordon, says the recent pace of price rises has been deterring some homeowners from selling up in case they miss out on more growth.
(5) Research from the Council of Mortgage Lenders shows 71% of people born in 1970 were homeowners by the time they were 40, but among those born in 1990 the figure is likely to be just 47%.
(6) Amber Rudd, the energy secretary, has promised to reform the auction scheme but one of her ministers, Andrea Leadsom, welcomed this year’s awards, arguing they reduced costs for homeowners.
(7) The Scottish Greens and the housing charity Shelter said the measure failed to address the more significant issues of a lack of affordable new homes and the council tax system, which greatly benefits wealthier homeowners whose property values are soaring.
(8) But, with unemployment still likely to rise, it would not be right to withdraw all support now for homeowners.
(9) Further grants, said the white paper, will be made available via a "pay-as-you-save" scheme for homeowners to receive loans to insulate their homes.
(10) Paula Higgins, chief executive of the HOA, said: "Although designed to protect homeowners, the new rules could be a disaster in the making.
(11) Quantitative easing is supposed to work by driving down long-term interest rates, which affect the cost of borrowing for homeowners and businesses.
(12) The prime minister, with her acute sensitivity and loyalty to Tory-inclined social groups, believed, probably with good reason, that a giveaway would enrage homeowners who had painstakingly saved for deposits and paid off mortgages.
(13) · Limit at which homeowners can apply for help with mortgage payments if they lose their jobs to be raised to mortgages worth £200,000.
(14) It’s more likely to come from a son or daughter of that woman in Newcastle, looking to fix things after realising they’ve been shafted, while others have gained riches simply for being the kids of London homeowners.
(15) People using wind turbines will be paid a lower rate of 34.5p per kWh for a turbine that is less than 1.5 kW (which will be the case for most homeowners) and 26.7p per kWh for a turbine that is more than 1.5kW.
(16) Daniel Lee of property website Globrix said that in some towns and cities homeowners were finding it "almost impossible" to sell.
(17) This will benefit around 220,000 homeowners, the chancellor said.
(18) Thankfully for all those homeowners worried about the monthly costs associated with funding their large mortgages, it looks like the monetarists will remain sitting on the sidelines for some time to come.
(19) He promised a crackdown on squatters, a mandatory six-month jail sentence for anyone threatening with a knife, and a promise to allow homeowners and shopowners to use reasonable force to protect their properties.
(20) A survey by the Homeowners Alliance (HOA), a lobby group for homeowners, indicates that more than 400,000 homeowners believe they will no longer be able to afford their mortgage payments when their current interest-only deals come to an end.
Householder
Definition:
(n.) The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(2) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
(3) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
(4) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(5) 5) Super-infection with HDV of an HBsAg-positive household contact was significantly predicted by female sex of the index case and by anti-HDV positivity.
(6) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(7) Twenty-eight out of 49 countries in [sub-Saharan] Africa have not had a household survey since 2006 and yet in Africa since 2005 the population has grown by 30%,” she said.
(8) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(9) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(10) Energy UK said the help offered by its members to pensioners and low-income households was the equivalent of giving shoppers £135 per year.
(11) "We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country, anywhere in the world.
(12) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(13) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(14) Subtyping performed on 10 HB-Ag-positive households showed the subtype to be the same within nine, emphasizing the epidemiological rather than the pathological importance of the ;ay' and ;ad' subtypes of the HB-Ag.
(15) It puts the number of LMI households with or without children at 5.8 million, comprising 5.1 million men and 5 million women.
(16) It combined regular interviews with a study of the impact on each household of benefit changes, pension reforms, social care cuts and fuel price increases.
(17) Continuing pressure on household finances during the next 12 months will no doubt remain a constraint."
(18) Analysis of the epidemic curve and intervals of onset of multiple cases within households suggested prolonged common source exposure rather than secondary person-to-person transmission.
(19) Currently, entitlement to CTC for families with one to three children is fully exhausted when gross household earnings reach about £26,000 and £40,000 a year respectively.
(20) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.