Ministers in the United Kingdom are once again under fire for failing to roll out important reforms outlined in 2018 by Lord Best, which afford greater protections to customers working with estate agents. A recent episode of BBC Radio 4's Money Box program highlighted...
A worrying report published by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) suggests that a growing number of leasehold property buyers are being deliberately misled by developers. Many buyers are being subjected to unfair treatment while being charged excessive fees...
You would be forgiven for thinking that in this day and age, private landlords would have to have a good reason to evict tenants. For an alarming number of private tenants across the UK, this sadly isn’t the case. Recently highlighted by a BBC report published...
If you live in a council house or a housing association property of any kind, now could be the perfect time to purchase your home. The government’s Right to Buy scheme provides qualifying tenants with the opportunity to purchase the properties they live in at a...
Buying a home for the first time can be both exciting and daunting in equal measure. Most first-time buyers have little to no knowledge or experience with the property market and therefore do not know where to start. We recommend using our mortgage calculator in the...
The recent introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 are apparently having little to no bearing on the personal data security practices of many organisations in the UK. Particularly where insolvency is concerned,...
Britain’s six biggest lenders have come under fire from ministers this week as the row regarding thousands of ‘mortgage prisoners’ continues to escalate. Treasury ministers issued an open letter accusing the banks of failing to help hundreds of thousands of struggling...
Both in an economic and political sense, 2019 will go down in history as one of the UK’s most unstable periods. This did not stop bridging finance activity once again, showing remarkable strength and resilience, with the sector having performed better than expected...
