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Pensioners use equity release to pay off credit card debts

Rising numbers of older homeowners are extracting cash from their homes to pay off spiralling debts in retirement, new figures suggest.The number of pensioners taking [...]

How to get out of debt in 2018

If you're feeling the pinch after another expensive Christmas, you're not alone. One in four us is starting the New Year with an average credit card [...]

How rich you need to be to buy a home revealed

How rich do you need to be to buy a home?Even in an age of cheap money, high house prices would leave many to guess [...]

Pay zero interest on your Christmas spending

Pay zero interest on your Xmas spending by shifting the debt to a new credit cardBy Leah Milner For The Daily Mail Published: 22:22 GMT, [...]

Where has the best value property?

By Money Mail Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 23:10 GMT, 9 January 2018 | Updated: 23:10 GMT, 9 January 2018 Affordable: House prices in [...]

Pay zero interest on your Xmas spending

By Leah Milner For The Daily Mail Published: 22:22 GMT, 9 January 2018 | Updated: 22:23 GMT, 9 January 2018 Balance transfer deals are the [...]

Postcode lottery if you release cash from your home

Older borrowers releasing cash from their homes face a postcode lottery that could end up costing them as much as £2,600.Two major providers of loans [...]

House prices rose just £2,400 in 2017, says Halifax

House prices rose by just £2,353 on average last year, as a slowdown in London and the South East dragged growth down, the Halifax index [...]

Card surcharges are gone but prices may rise as a result

From this Saturday it will be illegal for any business to add a surcharge to a customer’s credit or debit card payment.In theory, it will [...]

Metro and Atom founder Anthony Thomson on setting up banks

What is a bank and can anyone set one up? Founder of Metro and Atom Bank Anthony Thomson answersBy Rachel Rickard Straus for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: [...]

M&S Bank gives new credit card customers £45 to spend

M&S Bank is offering new customers £45 to spend in store or online when they open a credit card account and sign up to Reward Plus. The incentive [...]

London sees first annual house price fall in eight years

House prices rose by just 2.6 per cent last year, the smallest rise in any year since 2012, new analysis shows. The average price of a [...]

Lenders cut mortgage rates back to start the year

Mortgage lenders have opened the year with a flurry of rate cuts, with borrowers now able to secure a two-year fixed rate from as low [...]

Would you raffle off your home?

Homeowners who try to sell their houses by handing out raffle tickets to potential buyers could face jail if they bungle the draw.Desperate sellers who [...]

What will happen to property prices in 2018?

Property prices have remained resilient this year in the face of economic uncertainty and the looming prospect of Brexit.Housing has been a hot topic in [...]

The £8.5bn Xmas credit card debt burden

By Leah Milner For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 26 December 2017 | Updated: 10:10 GMT, 27 December 2017 Plastic Christmas: One in four [...]

Slash £2k off your mortgage bills AND beat rate hikes

Homeowners could slash thousands of pounds from their mortgage costs by preparing now for the looming interest rate hikes.Rates could rise 0.5 percentage points by [...]

Is Bitcoin a good substitute for gold in 2018?

What's the outlook for gold in 2018, how can you buy it and is BITCOIN a good substitute?By Rachel Rickard Straus for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 07:46 [...]

L&C launches online mortgage finder

Getting a mortgage can be a huge hassle but there are a few mortgage brokers out there trying to make the process easier and more [...]

Get AirBnB home insurance for £1.50 a day

Airbnb is one of the biggest successes of the sharing economy with more than four million homes currently listed to rent on the site. But while [...]

Top 10 UK property hotspots for 2017 revealed

Sudbury in Suffolk has been branded the top property hotspot of 2017, having seen asking prices jump over 13 per cent to £265,291.It led the [...]

We reveal the UK’s Help to Buy hotspots

Helping first-time buyers get a leg up onto the property ladder is considered a priority but high house prices mean it remains a pipe dream [...]

When to opt for a variable or tracker rate mortgage

The number of homeowners opting for a variable rate when they remortgage has plummeted 75 per cent over the past year as the Bank of [...]

Now you can get a mortgage through Facebook

Getting a mortgage online is becoming increasingly easy with a number of digital mortgage brokers launching over the past year - but from next month [...]

More than a third of homes have had their price slashed

More than one in three homes have seen their price slashed since they first came to the market - and by a slightly bigger amount [...]

House prices flat for first time in five years, Rics says

House prices were flat for the first time in nearly five years during the last three months, according to testate agents.The latest Royal Institution of [...]

Warning over £260 fee to find mortgage errors

By Iona Bain For The Daily Mail Published: 23:18 GMT, 12 December 2017 | Updated: 23:18 GMT, 12 December 2017 Borrowers are being invited to [...]

ONS says house prices up £10k in year to October 2017

Property prices are up 4.5 per cent annually according to the latest monthly index from the Office for National Statistics.It means the typical UK home [...]

New loyalty scheme rewards you for going to the pub

There's a new loyalty programme in town rewarding people for their credit card spending - even down the local pub.It goes by the name of [...]

The secret Bitcoin billionnaire | Daily Mail Online

You can’t touch, see or smell it. No one owns or controls it. No one regulates it. Yet Bitcoin, the world’s craziest currency, is supposedly [...]

Benefits overhaul will mean thousands lose their homes

Thousands more British households will be in danger of losing their homes next year if they lose their job or become too ill to work, [...]

House prices rocket by £7,000 this year says Halifax

House prices rose once again in November, resulting in an extra £7,000 added to the value of an average property this year alone, new figures [...]

Why your car loan could prevent you getting a credit card

A bank customer with an exemplary borrowing record has been turned down for a credit card by her bank because she had taken out a [...]

Experts predict mortgage rate best buy bonanza before 2018

Homeowners have been rushing to switching their mortgage to a cheaper deal after the Bank of England raised interest rates last month - but better [...]

Small Business Saturday’s back: get £5 off your Amex bill

It's Small Business Saturday tomorrow - a day that celebrates the best our independent shops and firms have to offer.And with the day being promoted [...]

House price rise steady at 2.5%, says Nationwide

House prices rose by 2.5 per cent over the past year, Nationwide reported today, as the property market steadied itself at a lower rate of [...]