Released on: September 20, 2007, 7:00 am

Press Release Author: Charlotte Burrows

Industry: Real Estate

Press Release Summary: The UK housing market may be set for another crisis as seen
in the last few days with Northern Rock.

Press Release Body: The bank got into liquidity problems as the world\'s financial
difficulties took hold in the UK.

It meant that Northern Rock went to the Bank of England for an emergency loan and
this caused panic among savers and mortgage borrowers, many of whom quickly withdrew
their money.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling calmed things by announcing that
the Bank of England would guarantee all deposits but his actions have been slammed
by some analysts.

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\"The events surrounding Northern Rock should be served as a warning to other
lenders. Instead the Chancellor is floundering at his first opportunity to signal
the end of the era of easy money as he promised. Is this his way of calling on banks
to think about returning to good old-fashioned banking?\" said Jenny Challenor,
mortgage strategist at Torquil Clark.

\"Alistair Darling is opening the floodgates for bad behaviour. Lenders have got the
green flag to do as they please and if it all backfires, the Bank of England will
wade in to bail them out,\" she added.

A further crisis could spell bad news for anyone wishing to make a quick property
sale due to a change of circumstances such as a divorce, bereavement or ill-health,
as more borrowers will lose confidence in the mortgage market.

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