Archive for December, 2008
‘Stagnation’ hits property market
One in five properties in some areas of the UK have been on the market for the whole of 2008, data suggests.
Debt advice demand ‘increasing’
Demand for assistance from a government-funded debt advice service rose by more than 40% in a year.
Business Loans - Free Useful Guidebook
Try to remember: depending on your past track record getting an online small business loan can be next to impossible. Anyway it doesn’t include your credit score, it also includes your past business ventures. If you have never started a business before and you are a beginning entrepreneur, you can all but throw out the [...]
Find Out More About Saving for Real Estate Investment Opportunities
It is really difficult to decide what is the best investing opportunity for your money. Because of the fact that there are a lot of investment companies, hunting for the right one is a challenge. That’s why you should always make sure that when you are investing your money, the assurance of a productive return [...]
Free Knolwedgebase with Useful Advice About Investment Clubs
Investment clubs has been around for a long time and there are lots of these clubs scattered across the country. There are many of these clubs, which are actively trading today and do so with a reasonable rate of success.
Investment clubs exist in the United States and many other countries around the world. You have [...]
Grants better than loan shark-style government
This weekend the Department for Work and Pensions proposed applying store card interest rates to social fund loans. After cross party outrage, this mean-spirited suggestion was followed by a red-faced, whip-smart reversal, with spokespeople rigorously denying this was ever the plan.
There’s one good thing about this fiasco: it’s bought the iniquitous social fund back into [...]
Minister’s U-turn on interest charges for social fund after ‘loan sharks’ jibe
The government was yesterday forced to perform a rapid U-turn over plans to charge high-street levels of interest on loans to some of the poorest people in Britain who rely on a social fund when they experience financial difficulties.
Hours after the government was accused of acting like “loan sharks”, the welfare minister, Kitty Ussher, took [...]
Crisis loans: Explainer
Who qualifies and what would the proposed changes have meant?
How an excessively low valuation can leave you feeling really down
Long-time homeowners coming to the end of mortgage deals are being forced to take more expensive loans than they had planned for because of lower-than-expected valuations on their properties.
Surveyors are wrong-footing many households seeking mortgages with steep downward corrections in value, known as “down-valuations”.
The result is that remortgaging homeowners who mistakenly bank on high levels [...]
Pay-back times for the interest-only mortgage
With house prices falling, relying on equity to pay off a loan is high risk. Jill Papworth reports
