Lenders rake in cash as borr...

April 13, 2011

Banks and building societies are making a fortune out of a rush to take out fixedrate mortgages as homeowners panic about interest rate increases. With uncertainty surrounding the timing of future int...

Savers still struggling to b...

April 13, 2011

Savers in Britain are still struggling to find accounts that beat the rise in the cost of living, despiteinflation falling in March. Even though inflation fell from 4.4 per cent to 4 per cent, one in...

House sales at 21 month low...

April 13, 2011

The UK property market shows no sign of recovery thanks to economic uncertainty and concernsabout a possible rise in interest rates. New figures from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyorsshow tha...

Packaged bank accounts under...

April 12, 2011

Research from a leading newspaper has discovered that consumers who pay for so-called ‘packagedbank accounts’ are being offered savings rates well below the Bank of England base rate of 0....