Market lively in ?1m houses
Million pound-plus houses are continuing to change hands at a rapid rate despite the UK economic downturn, top-end estate agents Countrywide Assured and Savills disclosed...
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Do you need an insurance Isa?
You could be forgiven for thinking there are only two flavours of individual savings accounts (Isas): stocks and shares and cash. However, as Tony Blair would no doubt be...
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Move policies from Independent - fast
About 500,000 people with motor and household insurance policies at the collapsed Independent Insurance are being encouraged to move their policies rapidly to other insur...
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Living to the full on part-time funds
Catherine Floyd and Michael Bosley
Ages: 40 and 41
Live: in Abergavenny
Occupations: Primary healthcare facilitator and healthcare promotion officer
Earn: ?27,000 com...
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Be quick for a fix
Homebuyers in search of a cheap fixed-rate mortgage have only a few days to land a deal before lenders hike their interest rates.
A rush of mortgage lending in the last...
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Rates vote 8-1 on fear of divided economy
The Bank of England warned yesterday that the widening divide in Britain's two-speed economy could prevent it from cutting rates again for fear of sparking a resurgence i...
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Granny's cash is vanishing
Nicky Philpott
Age: 32
Lives in: Brixton, London
Occupation: Charity worker
Earns: ?18,000
Mortgage: ?82,000
Debts: Credit cards
Investments: ?10,000 in Na...
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How to turn kitchen-table dreams into bricks and mortar
Find a mortgage
The Norwich and Peterborough (on 01733 372372) offers any mortgage from its range as a self-build loan that can be drawn down in tranches as each stage ...
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Please give us all that cash back
Last year's take over of Scottish Widows by Lloyds TSB resulted in some of the biggest windfall payments yet made - the average was more than £5,000. But for some "l...
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Flexible loans get personal
Flexibility - the in vogue feature among credit products right now - has hit the personal loan market with this week's launch of a deal by Abbey National's online bank ca...
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