What’s the difference between a recession and a depression? A recession is when your friend loses his or hers job due to cutbacks at work and a depression is when you lose your job. This recession is a national and a global affair it has no boundaries as it affects the rich, the white...
Read More »
Edward Ball, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families recently quoted that “this financial mess is global and as bad as we have seen for 100 years.” It’s obvious that Ed Ball thought he could say it better than Mervyn King the governor of the Bank of England who had already stated...
Read More »
The Northern Rock was granted emergency financial support from the Bank of England on September 2007. Northern Rock under government control then announced in 2007 that they would not remortgage their existing mortgage borrowers to a new remortgage product. In fact the Northern Rock was informing their mortgage borrowers to remortgage to another mortgage...
Read More »
It’s nearly a week since the Bank of England dropped their base rate from 5% to 4.5% and we are still waiting for more competitive interest rates from the banks for mortgages, remortgages personal and business loans. It seems that the top four banks namely, RBS, Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Barclay’s Bank were quick...
Read More »
This is not a stupid question to ask. I was with a client last week and I was arranging a five year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage on a 75% loan-to-value mortgage with the Bank of Scotland. While my client and I were signing all the paperwork for their new buy-to-let mortgage, the Bank of Scotland...
Read More »
