Writing a will is vital in ensuring that your wishes are carried out as you want them to be; and yet, many people in the UK are without one. Here are 6 reasons why you shouldn’t put off writing a will any longer.Will writing is...
If a high mortgage rate is leaving you with less in your pocket each month than you’d like, there are several things you can do to potentially lower the monthly repayments.Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage. Shop...
As the USA (still by far the world’s largest economy) emerges from recession with consistent good economic data, we should be set fair for improving conditions. It led us into the Credit Crunch…it should lead us out…But sadly our banks are tied up with this...
As a mortgage broker in London, we’re seeing a lot of clients asking us about Buy to Let mortgages across the city, looking to tap into the capital growth that’s returned to the property market. We’ve drawn up an example to show why these investments...
Expat Mortgages. Innovative Bridging Finance. Lending on student properties. Specialist criteria for the self employed and for contractor mortgages.It might seem surprising, but high street banks aren’t often keen to welcome customers from these lucrative markets.The scale of deposits available to major plc lenders, combined...
Feeding time at the bi-annual budget speech was in full force today. We got fed up pretty quickly of George’s often repeated clichés about ‘walking tall’, ‘work hard, save hard’ and the dreadfully cheesy ‘all in this together.’So we thought we’d look a little deeper than...
While the weather have finally gone grey, you might have missed the biggest financial news of past couple of weeks, some of the best mortgage rates we’ve seen in a while, so great they made us do a double take.The news tells us the London...
We’re not going to lie. The Private Rental Sector is pretty exciting right now.Since the creation of a Buy to Let investment as a specific mortgage product in 1996, house prices, fuelled by a shortage of stock and a rapidly growing population have rocketed.As cranes...
Financial commentators love a crisis. It’s a time to be smug, speaking with their perfect 20:20 hindsight on what’s happened and a chance to demonise all those involved. Their sights are now firmly trained on London house prices and fears of a property bubble in...
We have a challenge for you. Try to pick the best performing asset class for 2014 from the picture on the left (feel free to click on the picture for a closer view). Which did you go for? The point isn’t actually which asset class actually performed...