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 [...]

There seems little point in reducing interest rates any further as the interest rate cuts are proving to be ineffective and the Bank of England base rate cuts are proving to be unpopular with savers and borrowers. The pound is falling against the dollar and the euro. Savers are not being rewarded for saving [...]

The Bank of England decision today to drop interest rates to 1½ % is the lowest interest rate in the Banks 314 year history, since it was established in 1694. The Banks of England’s reason for another drop in the base rate is their concern about inflation, the costs of imports as sterling is very [...]

In the wake of last weeks shock announcement by Bank of England of a 1½% interest rate drop from 4.5% down to 3%. This was not before time! Around 40 mortgage lenders withdrew their trackers rate products from the market and said they would be reviewing and relaunching their tracker products later this week. By last Friday afternoon [...]

Yesterdays announcement by the Bank of England delivered an unexpected statement that they were cutting their base rate by 1½% from 4.5% to 3%.  It has been done to kick start our stalling economy and to try and prevent a deepening recession. Everyone was expecting a ½%; but, we all hoped for a full 1% [...]

The Department of Working Pensions (DWP) has announced changes to Income Support for Mortgage Interest (ISMI). The DWP has unveiled a package to assist vulnerable homeowners to meet their mortgage interest payments should they lose their jobs and become unemployed.
The current ruling is that if you should lose your job then you will not receive [...]

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