I also hold permanent interest bearing shares in Britannia. What will happen to these? J.R.T., Plymouth
Simon Moon from This is Money replies: I’m afraid the fact that the coming together of Britannia Building Society and Co-operative Financial Services is a merger and not a demutualisation means there will be no […]
Figures from the Nationwide confirm that Britain is in the grip of the worst housing market crash since its records began in the 1950s.
A year ago, fewer than 100,000 homeowners were in negative equity but the average price of a home has dropped from £186,050 at its peak in October 2007 to £150,500 today […]
Can we use the equity in that house £320,000 to increase the level of a UK mortgage.
We are both retired. My total pension is about £25,000 net and we have about £30,000 available. David, Alnwick, Northumberland
Louise Cuming, head of mortgage and protection services at Moneysupermarket.com, replies: Unfortunately there is no way of […]
Simon Moon from This is Money replies: ‘As a result of the cuts in VAT, falling energy prices and lower mortgage costs, the general expectation is that the Retail Price Index measure of inflation will fall below zero in the course of 2009. The trough of that decline is expected around the […]
In fact, Cary Cooper, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University Management School, believes this is not a bad time to be made redundant.
‘It is psychologically better to lose your job now rather than in more affluent times,’ he says. ‘It will still feel like a rejection but you can rationalise it by saying that […]
By Linsey Knerl
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One in four Britons - more than 12m people - has been a victim of some form of card fraud in the past year, research has revealed.
The average loss was more than £650, with one in 20 losing more than £2,000, the poll of 1,679 credit and debit card holders […]
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