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As a finance guru I am often asked for tips and advice for someone who has just been made redundant. How should they cope with protecting their finances and their credit report? The spectre of losing your job can be terrifying, especially when vacancies are at a record low. But once the initial shock [...]

As the editor of talkmoneyblog ,  I am often asked if now is the best time to take on a new mortgage and buy a new home, here are my finance tips. Ask ten people whether they think the time is right to venture back into the property market and you’re likely to get a [...]

Knowledge is power when it comes to getting the credit you want. Start by understanding the impact your credit history has on the type of offer you get - or whether you get an offer at all.
Your credit history is reflected in your credit report, which lists credit cards, loans, mortgages and other credit accounts, [...]

According to Credit Action almost sixty-six percent of Britons had seen their finances stretched by the current recession. It seems that 31% of households are now so worried about the state of their finances that they are considering missing essential repayments on credit cards, loans and mortgages.  Research by Mintel has shown that over five [...]

A few weeks ago I was talking with another client who had a tracker rate mortgage with the Cheltenham & Gloucester.  She told me that her tracker mortgage which I had arranged for her on a 1.01% below the base rate had reduced her monthly payments down to 25pence a month on a fairly substantial [...]

Buying a Schnoodle
I was talking with some clients last night and they happened to mention how they had more money at the end of each month since the interest rate had dropped from 5% to ½ %.  As a money saving expert I wanted to know what they were doing with their new found wealth [...]

A recent survey of 1,407 new debt clients was conducted by the Citizens Advice Bureaux and they found that the average amount of debt owed by their clients’ was £16,971 in 2008 and one client in ten had ten or more credit card debts. More than fifty percent of these clients had four or more [...]

The Story So Far!
It is reported today that 29,444 people in England and Wales declared themselves insolvent in the last quarter of 2008; this is an 18.5% increase for the same period in 2007. About 2/3rds of these people some 19,100 declared themselves bankrupt during this period; this is a record number of bankruptcies. The [...]

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 lender [...]

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 [...]