Buy-to-let market continues to expand - 2004-02-11
Investors jumped into the buy-to-let market in 2003 as the number of specialist landlord mortgages jumped by 48% over the year, according to a report released

today by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Despite improvements in the stock market, a growing number of investors chose to sink their money into property rather than taking a risk on equities.
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Self-cert mortgages could skew market - 2004-02-11
Could you believe that a bank would encourage customers to defraud it? It may seem incredible, but that is what some of Britain's biggest mortgage lenders have in effect been doing.

As a result, a flood of illicitly obtained mortgage money may have been pouring into homeowners' pockets, boosting both house prices and consumer spending.

The Money Programme started investigating mortgages last year.
Read the full story at BBC