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BBC Radio 4's Money Box
Saturday 14 July at 1204 BST
On Radio 4 and Online
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The government wants to shake-up the housing market by encouraging lenders to offer more long-term fixed-rate deals.
But mortgage experts warn that such fixes can be expensive and may not suit borrowers.
Can the government change hearts and minds as well as the housing market?
On Saturday's programme we heard from Professor David Miles, author of a report on long-term fixed-rate mortgages.
And we spoke to Stuart Bernau of Nationwide and Michael Coogan of the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
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Tesco property website
Sellers will get a Tesco-branded for sale sign for outside their homes
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Supermarket giant Tesco has entered the "do-it-yourself" home-selling market.
Visitors to its new property website are offered the chance to sell their home for a fee of less than £200.
But the move has provoked furious criticism from online property listing sites and estate agents.
We heard from Peter Bolton King of the National Association of Estate Agents and spoke to Christopher Hamer of The Ombudsman for Estate Agents and Jonathan Church of Tesco.
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Flood insurance
Alan Simpson MP wants to discourage building on flood plains
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As thousands of people continue to try to repair flood damage, one MP is arguing that developers need to be more accountable when building on flood plains.
Alan Simpson - Labour MP for Nottingham South - has asked the prime minister to consider making developers liable for full flood insurance cover for 20 years for any houses they build on flood plains.
Gordon Brown has promised to look into the proposals.
We spoke to Alan Simpson about his proposal and also to John Slaughter of the Home Builders Federation.
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Standard Life
Standard Life will begin writing to shareholders from 23 July
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It is decision time for Standard Life's 1.7m eligible shareholders on the first anniversary of its stock market flotation.
Bonus shares worth almost a quarter of a billion pounds are to be issued.
Should shareholders sell them or keep them?
We spoke to Paul McKenna of Standard Life and Tim Whitehead of stockbrokers Redmayne Bentley.
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OTHER NEWS
The speeding up of electronic payments is going to be delayed, Apacs has announced.
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BBC Radio 4's Money Box was broadcast on Saturday, 14 July 2007 at 1204 BST.
The programme was repeated on Sunday, 15 July 2007 at 2102 BST.
This is the last Money Box programme until September.
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