Today's Newspaper Headlines - 1st July 2008Today's Newspaper Headlines - 1st July 2008
Financial Times
Risk grows of painful economic correction, BoE mortgage figures, p3
Estate agency jobs under threat, p4
Eco-town protest goes to Parliament, p4
Companies & Markets
Taylor Wimpey revalues assets, p21
Crunch times call for drastic measures on the home front, p24
Daily Telegraph
First-time buyers vanish as slump deepens, BoE figures, p1
We’ll scrap eco-towns, say Tories, p1, opinion, p23
Barratt set for lifeline refinancing, p1
Times Business
Taylor Wimpey taps investors to plug funding gap as its land values slump, p41
John Charcol wields axe as mortgage market wilts, p41
The Independent
What are eco-towns and how green are they in reality, p29
UK mortgage approvals collapse to record low of 42,000, p33
Dealing with Britain’s beleaguered housing market may call for some radical solutions, p35
Guardian
Flint plans emergency measures to combat housing slump – Housing corporations to give bigger upfront payments to developers to buy properties, p12
Taylor Wimpey wipes £660m from land and building site values, p24
Home loan approvals plunge 65% as price fall gathers pace, p27
Daily Express
Housing market gloom as number of loans plunges, propertyfinder, p4
City & Business
Taylor Wimpey, p49
Daily Mail
Mortgages dry up, BoE, p2
Stamp duty squeeze, RICS, p25