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How To Make The Right Choice When Picking Mortgage
Comparing Mortgages To Get The Best Deal For You Having selected the type of mortgage that would be right for your particular circumstances, the next step is to come up with a shortlist of banks and building societies that can offer a suitable product. But when...
Location, location, location – The 3 L’s of buying a house
Thanks to TV property gurus Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsop there can hardly be a living man, woman or child in the entire country who is unaware of the fact that location is the single most important factor when buying property. In fact deciding where you want to...
Paying off your Mortgage? You have options!
Its payback time! No not that kind of payback, mortgage payback time. What are your options? We walk you through our most favoured approaches... Right now, worrying about how you are ultimately going to pay back your mortgage at some point in the distant future...
Choosing The Right Type Of Mortgage – Which mortgage package works for you?
There are several key factors to consider when picking the right mortgage – the interest rate you pay, the number of years the mortgage will run, and how you plan to pay it off. But mortgage products are rarely what they seem. As a rule, the small print will be packed...
Selecting The Right Mortgage Broker – How do you choose?
Suddenly every second person you meet seems to be a mortgage expert. Even solicitors sometimes boast a financial services division. But in the financial ocean, there are plenty of sharks circling, having scented blood from many miles away. So where do you look for...
Financing Your Home – Borrowing money for your new home
Would you lend money to…you? Most of us would think twice about lending money even to our dearest friends if we knew they had a history of absconding without payment. The same holds true for banks – with the notable exception of the US sub-prime lending fiasco, which...
Financing Your New Home – The Best Options For You
Financing your purchase can be difficult... But there wouldn’t be much of a property market without easy access to mortgage funding. This became horribly apparent in 2008 in the aftermath of the credit crunch when, in a state of near panic, banks began to hastily...
Selling your home? – Do you use one agent or several? – Answered
Should you appoint just one estate agent? Or is there a better chance of achieving a sale by using two or even three simultaneously? Most sellers appoint a single agent, until things get a bit desperate, at which point a fresh crop of different agents’ boards will...