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What's more, it will subsidise banks to lend on property rather than productive enterprise.
But with house prices falling, fewer homeowners have the equity to borrow against, even if the mortgage provider would lend on a credit basis".
Jon Lee, lending development officer at the Ecology, says: "Properties that the Society will lend on have to meet certain standards of ecological quality, or carry with them a strong case ecologically in terms of planned refurbishment, renovation or conversion.
After this article was published, Nationwide building society contacted us to point out that it will offer new applicants a loan up to the age of 75, and that it will lend on properties above the fifth floor, but only in London.
Recognizing the potential of this new asset class, I started to lend on Prosper almost the moment it opened.
MY DUMB BUNNY BANKER: We don't lend on one-of-a-kind properties.
Although the Halifax will lend on properties in sheltered accommodation, it may refuse if the property is one of just a few owner-occupied homes in the surrounding area.
It added that banks and building societies that make up its membership had mixed views on how the discount scheme would work alongside other government initiatives such as the help-to buy-loan scheme, and that some firms may choose not to lend on starter homes if buyers were allowed to combine government incentives on one purchase.
And until recently banks have been all too ready to lend on it.
Halifax and Woolwich won't lend on these flats, but Royal Bank of Scotland is more flexible.
The problem with negative interest rates, however, is quickly apparent: nobody would lend on those terms.
