Give me some credit
Whether you've been rejected for a ?100,000 mortgage or a ?1,000 credit card, being turned down for credit can be extremely frustrating.
Judging by the number of emails...
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Shops counter rate rises with price cuts
The Bank of England's concerns about rising prices were temporarily assuaged yesterday with news that strong competition in Britain's retailing sector pulled down the ann...
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Fit and well? Time to get some insurance
The funny thing about insurance is the more you need it, the harder it is to get. As soon as you have a problem - points on your driving licence, a health condition - you...
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Loans boom turns to bust
Nearly 30 per cent more people went bankrupt in the second quarter of this year than in the same period last year, taking the number of personal insolvencies during this ...
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New hope over old debts after repossession ruling
Thousands of repossession victims still being chased for debts many years after losing their homes could now get mortgage lenders off their backs - thanks to a landmark l...
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Pledge over right to buy
The Office of Fair Trading this week acted against an independent mortgage consultant to stop him making misleading claims about the government's right to buy scheme.
Ri...
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Don't panic says Bradford & Bingley, house prices won't crash
Mortgage specialist Bradford & Bingley today said it was confident the housing market will survive the fifth interest rate rise in less than a year.
The lenders, who sp...
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Bitter rate rise medicine begins to cool house price fever
The Bank of England's fifth interest rate rise since November took borrowing costs up to 4.75% yesterday, the highest level in almost three years.
While rates may not l...
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Higher rates are cooling house price growth, says Halifax
Higher interest rates are starting to take the heat out of the boom in house prices that has seen the cost of the average home double within five years, Britain's leading...
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Endowment crisis fells two firms
The worsening mortgage endowments crisis appears to have claimed the scalps of two specialist firms which buy up people's unwanted policies and sell them on to other inve...
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