Your browser does not support the video tag. Property Investment News – Nationwide offers account holders 95% LTV mortgage – Mortgage strategy.co.uk – 04 May 2011 – By Natalie Thomas Nationwide is to launch save to buy – an account for first-time buyers to save regularly towards their deposit that also ...

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How much is your pension worth? Having spent many years in financial services, and slogged my way through countless exams, I feel that I am best positioned to provide my clients with the best possible pension planning advice. In particular I hold the G60 Pensions Qualification of the Advanced Financial ...

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Are we about to fall off an even bigger fiscal cliff? It's amazing the amount of information that is available on the internet, especially from economists who supposedly “predicted” previous recessions which therefore that means they must know what they are talking about now. In fact this couldn't be further ...

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Property Investment Guide - The property cycle The property cycle is one of property investing's most misunderstood factors. It's never to scale. You can only track the trends. But when you do track & analyse them and place your right bets at the right time, you're a guaranteed winner. So where ...

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Buy-to-let attractive to new landlords Lovemoney.com – 17 Feb 2011 – by John Fitzsimons Guest blogger Alex Hammond, of specialist lender Kensington, brings investment news why the buy-to-let market looks attractive to new landlords, so long as they take a long-term approach. Things are looking up for buy-to-let. Recent figures from ...

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Interest rates: Who will win betweeen Mervyn King and Andrew Sentance? The Telegraph – 18 Feb 2011 – By Emma Rowley. Just 24 hours after the central bank's Governor had done his best to calm market talk that he had quietly signalled three rate rises are coming this year, his ...

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Inflation soaring Mervyn King repeated his warning that the government's measure of how fast prices are rising and inflation soaring, the consumer prices index (CPI), could hit 5pc “over the next few months”, after figures showed it climbed 4pc in the year to January. ...

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Is insurance really worth it? Only the other day I was telling Ian, one of my good clients I had finally ‘cracked' and bought life insurance. Intrigued, he asked me all sorts of questions: what kind of policy did I get? Was it a ‘whole of life' policy or a ...

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Welfare loans meant to help families facing financial crisis are open to widespread abuse as false claimants spend them on luxuries. Hundreds of thousands of claimants are abusing the Crisis Loan Payment system, the Department for Work and Pensions said today as it announced the way the payments are run ...

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Property Investment News – February 2011 The RP Data-Riskmark Home Value Index was released this week so I thought I'd give my two cents on what all this means. If you've been reading my blogs you'll know all about my 7-10 x 7-10 property investment strategy. It's based on the ...

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