Articles tagged "property"

Interest-Only Alternatives

Monday, November 26th, 2012

Interest only – on the way out? There have been a few news stories about the issue of interest only mortgages being phased out by lenders recently, so it’s a good time to look into the subject more closely. Interest only mortgages seem to be heading for a slow demise; at the very least, lenders [...]

Tags: mortgages, property

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 26th October 2012

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Welcome to another week, and another week closer to the presidential elections across the water in the USA. It’s also been another not so illustrious week for the banks with HSBC this time suffering a systems crash. But at least we have some good news on the economy… As always, if you have any queries, [...]

Tags: banks, Europe, European banks, Eurozone, HSBC, property

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Buyer Beware!

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

Buyer Beware… especially if you’re a first-timer Buying anything these days seems to be fraught with potential problems. Even choosing groceries involves checking ingredients, use-by dates, even calories for those of us (including a few of Worldwide’s advisers) who are watching our weight. When it comes to buying bigger and more expensive things, then even [...]

Tags: first time buyers, housing market, independent mortgage broker, mortgages, property

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First Time Buyer

Monday, July 30th, 2012

So you want to buy a house… …But a small deposit is holding you back. You’ve managed, with a lot of hard work and economies, to save up a couple of thousand, but you know that realistically, this will soon be swallowed up by costs. Buying a house isn’t cheap, certainly not when you factor [...]

Tags: mortgages, property

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Buy to Let: Let a Broker Help You

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Property prices down, interest rates low, rents up… Looking at things from one angle, it seems a bit of a bleak picture. But it doesn’t have to be. Look at things another way and these could be things to take advantage of. If you’re thinking that a buy to let might be for you, we’ve [...]

Tags: buy to let, Buy to let mortgages, interest rates, mortgages, property

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Long Term Care Costs

Monday, December 19th, 2011

Long Term Care Costs – Why Where You Live Makes a Difference Two weeks ago we wrote about long term care costs and funding. One of the subjects we mentioned in our article was the contribution to nursing care costs that some people are eligible to receive. This is an area where many people who [...]

Tags: long term care, long term care costs, property

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Long Term Care Planning

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Protect Your Property from Long Term Care Costs The subject of long term care is an emotional one for many people. It’s also very much a financial subject. Long term care can be expensive. There is no getting away from that. However, by taking the right advice and having the facts, it doesn’t have to [...]

Tags: long term care, long term care costs, property

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Financial News Round Up for the Week Ending 2nd December 2011

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Week ending 2nd December 2011 This was the week of Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, much of which had been leaked before the official statement. Some good news for drivers and commuters, relatively that is, but refusal to continue the stamp duty ‘holiday’ for first time buyers caused dismay amongst many. Elsewhere, the FTSE100 bounced [...]

Tags: budget, FTSE100, pensions, property

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Buy To Let News

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Paragon mortgages report growing confidence in the buy to let market, with landlord demand strong, and finance for buy to lets becoming more readily available. Datamonitor forecast that BTL lending will reach £25.6 billion by 2014. The value of BTL lending in 2010 was £10.4 billion 1 in 5 households will be in privately rented [...]

Tags: buy to let, Buy to let mortgages, first time buyers, mortgages, property

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Mortgage market is looking healthy according to Cornish financial planning firm

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

A Cornish financial advice firm has been pleasantly surprised to see an increase in the number of people taking out mortgages. The national picture is very different to the one Worldwide Financial Planning has seen, which shows a clear improvement from 2009 to 2010. Many of the transactions that took place were remortgages or refinancing [...]

Tags: housing market, mortgages, property, residential property, Worldwide Financial Planning

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