- Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 14:24
- Featured, Personal Finance
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published data that gives consumers greater insight into how financial services companies handle complaints.
Following a year of extensive public consultation and planning, the Financial Ombudsman Service has for the first time published a range of complaints data relating to individually named financial businesses - including
banks,
insurance ...
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- Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:16
- Featured, Mortgages
July
house purchase lending was up in July when compared with a year ago, meaning that lending for house purchase has shown its first material annual growth in July for the first time since early 2007.
At £14.5 billion, total gross lending rose significantly for the second month running, but was still 42% lower than ...
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- Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:14
- Featured, Savings and Investments
Bradford & Bingley, one of the savings brands owned by Spanish banking group Santander, has announced the launch today of a two year fixed rate bond paying 4.35% gross/AER fixed until 1st October 2011.
This new rate is available for both new and existing customers. However, the deal is only available to those with substantial ...
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- Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:11
- Featured, Mortgages
House prices in urban areas have fallen by more than in rural areas over the past year, according to the latest annual
Halifax Rural Housing Review.
The report shows that the average house price in urban areas in Great Britain fell by 18% over the past 12 months compared to an average 13% drop ...
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Brits have a grim outlook when it comes to preparing financially for their future, according to new research from Scottish Widows commissioned for Financial Planning Week 2009 (7th – 13th September).
Financial Planning Week is a not-for-profit programme aimed directly at helping people identify their goals in life and work out how to plan their finances ...
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- Friday, September 11, 2009, 9:40
- Featured, Personal Finance
With children safely back at school and unlikely to be seen at holiday resorts, the over-50s are packing their bags and heading out into the sun this weekend, according to research from Saga Travel Insurance.
The research found that September is the most popular month to go away among the over 50s. Almost two thirds (61%) ...
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Insurers received 527,000 home
insurance claims during the first half of 2008, but this fell to 373,000 for the same period in 2009, according to the Sainsbury's Home Insurance Claims Index, which tracks the volume and value of claims on a six monthly basis.
The Index also reveals that the average size of a claim ...
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- Friday, September 11, 2009, 9:36
- Featured, Interest Rates, Mortgages
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has voted to leave the
base rate at 0.5% and the Quantitative Easing (QE) programme will remain unchanged this month.
Ray Boulger of leading UK mortgage broker John Charcol commented:
"It seems probable that Bank Rate will remain at 0.5% until well into next year and that any policy ...
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- Friday, September 11, 2009, 9:33
- Featured, Mortgages
The latest
Halifax House Price Index has revealed that
house prices increased by 0.8% in August, marking the second successive monthly rise and the fourth in the first eight months of 2009.
According to the report, this means that prices remained largely unchanged over the first eight months of 2009 as a whole. The ...
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- Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 16:42
- Featured, Mortgages
The
Nationwide Consumer Confidence Index recorded a two point increase in August to 63 as all the indices that make up the overall figure rose during the month.
The Expectations Index saw the biggest increase of three points to 94, while the Present Situation Index, which has generally been falling since the end of 2007, ...
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