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Mortgage default fears feed the rise of opportunist sale-and-leaseback firms

Call for regulation as credit-crunch panic spreads. By Lindsey Rogerson

First the Treasury, and then a powerful trade body, declared "the era of cheap mortgages is over" last week as a swathe of evidence exposed the extent of the looming crisis for UK homeowners.