How fit are your finances?
Welcome back!Applying for a new loan or credit card is a competitive business, with the best deals going to the people who have the fittest credit history. If you want to be in the running, you need to remember the old fable and act like the tortoise, taking time to manage your money, rather than [...]
Learn MoreBuy-to-Let Landlords see their property investments hit by this recession – Mortgage Advice
Some Buy-to-Let landlords have been hardest hit by the current downturn in the economy and are losing properties by three times the rate of ordinary homeowners. Landlords saw the housing boom as an easy way to make money and many felt that the property boom would never end or so they thought. It seems that [...]
Buy-to-Let Landlords struggle to keep up mortgage repayments | Debt Help
As this recession tightens its grip on our economy many buy-to-let landlords have found themselves unable to sustain their mortgage commitments to repay their borrowings. The chief executive of the housing charity Shelter says that he is worried about the increase in the number of people seeking advice from his organisation. Many landlords and tenants [...]
Is now the right time to sell your home and move? | Mortgage Advice
The news so far is that some Estate Agents have indicated that the property market looks to be stabilising. The average value of a UK home has fallen by 17.7% during the last year from £194,953 to £160,327 according to the Halifax. This means that the average house has lost £30,000 in the last year. [...]
Tenants, Beware of Buy-to-Let landlords when renting
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has released figures this month that show a sharp rise in homes being repossessed. The figures show that 40,000 people lost their homes last year which is up from 26,200 in 2007. These figures also included buy-to-let repossessions from landlords with buy-to-let mortgages and landlords who are renting out [...]
Mortgage gloom set to continue through 2009
In the last two months I have seen nine clients all wishing to remortgage their homes. Some of my clients are at the end of a mortgage deal, others are looking to consolidate their expensive secured loans, unsecured loans and credit card debts into an affordable mortgage deal. Whilst some clients are looking for a [...]
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More Interest Rate Cuts to follow
The bank of England cut interest rates from 4.5% down to 3% this month and then commented that they had thought of a bigger drop in the base rate. But they were worried [...]
Remortgages Just Got More difficult!
Breaking news from the Halifax Bank who are reporting a 13% drop in house prices for the last year. They claim that the current house price drop is the fastest and the largest house price drop they have ever recorded. The Halifax says that the monthly house price drop of 1.3% per month is now [...]
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Interest Rate Cuts by Desperate Men Seeking Desperate Solutions!
Yesterday’s unprecedented announcement from the Prime Minister Gordon Brown that The Bank of England had cut the UK interest rate by 0.5% has been welcomed by everyone. The mortgage interest rate has fallen from 5% to 4.5% which is great news for everyone. Further news that the US and European central banks were following suit [...]
So who are the Real Winners and Losers?
The Chancellor Alistair Darling this morning announced that he had temporarily raised Stamp Duty on house purchases from £125,000 to £175,000 for one year only. This Government believes that this will stimulate the housing market and encourage the First-Time-Buyers into buying their first home.
The last time the conservatives were in [...]
