CML releases repossession figures

The Council of Mortgage Lenders released figures last week that showed the level of repossessions in the UK had increased by 50% in the first three months of this year compared to the first quarter of the previous year. The number of repossession is said to have soared to 12,800 in the first three months of the year, and this was up from 10,400 in the previous quarter and from 8,500 in the first three months of 2008. Read more

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