When there's no place like the home you want to buy
If you are looking for a standard mortgage on a standard house, you can take your pick from thousands of deals on offer from the 140-plus lenders in the market. But what ...
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Money magic - or make-believe?
Perhaps people are becoming desperate as the stock market plummets, but there is a surge of snakeoil salesmen promising unbelievable riches - as long as you first buy the...
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House prices soar in September
House prices shot up in September at the fastest rate in a year, bringing annual house price inflation to 24.2% and the average London home to a value of over ?200,000 fo...
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More pounds pushed on the plastic
Credit card lending took its largest jump in two years in August as consumers shrugged off hints of a slowdown in the housing market to pile up fresh debt, official figur...
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Is it wise to chop and change?
Q I recently married and paid the hotel bill (around ?5,000) on an interest-free credit card, enabling me to pay off the debt in manageable monthly chunks rather than dep...
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Teachers remain cautious over PFI
The chancellor, Gordon Brown, this morning defended his private finance initiative (PFI) for education, saying that, since Labour came to power, 550 school projects had b...
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Banking on a miracle
It must be the longest economic shipwreck in history. For the past nine months, since Argentina erupted into blazing street riots, changed president five times in two wee...
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The endowment misery goes from bad to worse
Endowment mortgage victims could collect around £12bn in compensation from insurers. But so far only 200,000 of the estimated 5m - one in 25 - who could claim, have....
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Storm breaks over flood insurance
Halifax, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, will today accuse the government of dragging its feet over a deal to provide insurance cover for the estimated 2m homes in Eng...
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Abbey to sell First National
Abbey National, Britain's sixth largest bank, has put its consumer credit arm up for sale in an attempt to return to basics after a disastrous foray outside its core reta...
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