Sheila Challiner

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Application Fraud by Borrowers Increases

As consumers resorted to desperate measures to acquire new credit, the amount of people who commit fraud by lying on application forms for insurance products, loans and credit cards jumped in the first half of the year.

The fraud prevention agency, CIFAS, reported that the amount of discovered incidences of so-called “application fraud” rose by more than 12 per cent during the first half of 2008.The most popular lie, CIFAS said was not disclosing a previous address where a bad credit record had been built up by the applicant.

Improve, Extend – Stay Put

It seems as though many experts are predicting that house prices will level out or even fall over the following months Whilst this news will not be greeted with open arms by current home-owners, for those trying to get on to the housing ladder, it should mean a mortgage will be that little bit more affordable