Wow, February already! Time flies. It also brings us another month closer to Brexit. Uncertainty remains and nobody knows what lies around the corner. However, we’ve been through this before. Remember the millennium bug that was going to be the ultimate in chaos, computers wouldn’t work and the world would be a worse place, etc etc? […]
Month: January 2019
Mortgage prisoner? There’s light at the end of the tunnel…for some.
Around 140,000 people with mortgages are currently classed as ‘mortgage prisoners’. This means that they could be with a lender who is no longer active, or a lender who has ‘bought’ a number of clients from other lenders but who does not offer additional mortgage products once the customers current incentive rate period comes to an […]
Don’t stay on the lenders standard variable rate for the sake of it!
2019 has started as expected, with the main stay being uncertainty. Already we’ve seen three lenders stop lending or pull all of their products due to ‘costs of funding’ and ‘uncertain times ahead’. This is all a bit ‘de ja vu’ compared to back in 2007/8 before the big ‘crash’. However, this time we’re not on the […]