Mark Clare, the boss of Barratt Developments, a homebuilder, said this week that there had been “a tightening of lending criteria and mortgage availability”.

一家房屋建筑公司Barratt Devlpmet 的老板马克克莱尔这本周表示这个市场已经存在"贷款基准以及可得抵押贷款缩紧"。

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Mark Clare, group chief executive of Barratt Developments, the UK's biggest housebuilder, said that self-built homes still needed to be financed and expertise needed to put them up.

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