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For every ten homes sold last month one was a remortgage. Until more mortgages arranged are remortgages each month I very doubt that property prices will drop any further. The reason for the house prices being unreasonably buoyant is due to the fact that for every ten houses sold only six new homes are coming [...]

Here are some finance tips that suggest your credit rating could suffer as a result of you not understand what credit terms are all about. It can be hard to navigate the credit minefield, which is littered with technical terms and governed by rules many of us don’t understand. This guide is designed as a [...]

Cheques, utility bills and credit card payments, loan payments and mortgage payments may be held up or returned to their senders during the round of postal strikes that are causing backlogs and confusion around the country - and your credit rating could suffer as a result say the money experts who offer money saving tips.
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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. [...]

Money saving Expert says, surely the Bank of England base rate cannot drop any further? They could drop another half a percentage point to zero but there seems little point in reducing interest rates further. The government and the Bank of England have now introduced and started the process of Quantative Easing. They will spend [...]

As a provider of  money saving advice , I can understand banks and finance institutes charging high interest rates to clients that have a less than perfect credit report where they have missed payments, fallen into arrears, been issued with defaults and county court judgements. But it looks like these banks were charging these interest [...]

Recessions come and recessions eventually go but if you were born in the 1980s or 1990s, you may not know what to expect or how to cope during a period of financial uncertainty. This guide gives all you first-time buyers a few pointers to surviving until the next boom comes around.
Your attitude
Stick to the essentials
Decide [...]

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 [...]

Inflation has fallen to its lowest rate since 1960 and now stands at 0%. The inflation rate is calculated from the prices of a range of different goods and services selected to represent average spending patterns in the UK. There are two different methods of calculating inflation
The retail prices index (RPI) is intended to reflect [...]