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Boost for first time buyers...
It has been a tough time for homebuyers over recent years. Since the credit crunch, lenders havetightened their criteria for mortgages meaning that borrowers have needed larger deposits and asqueaky c...
Bank base rate to stay at 0....
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has once again voted to hold the centralbank’s base rate at 0.5 per cent. The rate has now been unchanged for two years – at the...
Using credit cards ‘is...
Using a credit card to pay for goods and services ‘doesn’t count as real spending’. That’s the startling conclusion to a recent survey into attitudes towards cash and spe...
Tying your money to a good r...
Investors looking for a home for more than £1,000 can buy special bonds paying market-leading returns from high street names like John Lewis, Tesco Bank and Lloyds TSB. The bonds pay a be...