Building society announces best lending figures - 2004-02-16
The Yorkshire building society has declared record annual lending figures after a jump in the number of borrowers.

The Yorkshire said it lent £2.8 billion to more than 47,000 people in 2003 - a 13% increase on the previous year.

A range of products with attractive interest rates, flexibility and fair pricing helped it achieve the figures amid an increasingly competitive mortgage market it claimed.
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California Home Prices Goes On To Break Records - 2004-02-16
Median home prices maintained its rise to record levels in the fourth quarter of 2003, as desperate buyers boosted a sellers' market, experts said.

Thirty-year fixed mortgage interest rates averaged 5.92 percent during the fourth quarter of 2003, down from 6.07 percent in the fourth quarter of 2002, according to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
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