Judges open way for bank's loan victims
The court of appeal last month criticised the Bank of Scotland mortgage conditions in the strongest terms. Lord Justice Laws said of its Stabilised Mortgage Plan: "The ba...
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Gordon's modest squeeze
Anthony Giddens is wrong to call for tax cuts (A third way budget, February 29). Tax cuts will mean further job losses in manufacturing, because they will lead to rises i...
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Watchdog bares its teeth
The Office of Fair Trading this week turned its spotlight on the unrestricted right of moneylenders to raise their interest rates at will. The OFT announced plans to make...
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The importance of being normal
An international development campaign worker thought he understood basic English when he was sold a Legal & General endowment mortgage to back a late 80s home purchas...
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Fancy a loan ... only seven times your salary
Mortgages at seven times the borrower's income, loans at 120% of a house's value, first-time buyers clubbing together to buy a home... lenders may insist they are keeping...
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Wimpey offers the bespoke house
Fancy ordering a bespoke detached home, arranging a mortgage and reaching completion within, say, six weeks? According to George Wimpey, the housebuilder, you will be abl...
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Savills' site targets home loan seekers
Britain's second largest mortgage broker, Savills Private Finance, is aiming to write £600m a year in loan business over the internet with the launch next month of n...
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Halifax plans begging letters to clients
Halifax, Britain's largest mortgage lender, will write to more than 200,000 customers every month for a year to convince them to stay with the bank.
The former building...
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Strategies to avoid the student debt trap
The death by a thousand cuts of state-subsidised higher education is now complete with the introduction of tuition fees. This follows the end of maintenance grants.
The...
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Why fixed rates have not proved a snorter
Higher mortgage payments are on the way for millions, with Abbey National and Nationwide among the latest lenders to announce they will be upping their home loan rates by...
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