Customers in Europe buying products ranging from furniture to pet food from UK companies are receiving unexpected bills for VAT and customs declarations or finding household names have stopped shipping to the continent, as post-Brexit trading rules bite. “We bought a...
In early November I left my house to find that the front wing of my car had been smashed. Thankfully, a neighbour had left a note on my windscreen. Apparently, a Morrisons delivery van had crashed into my car the previous evening and driven off without stopping. I...
The lender said its new products strengthened its innovative and common-sense approach to meeting the needs of homebuyers, remortgagors and landlords. The buy-to-let range is accessible to individual landlords and limited companies, and two of its mortgages are...
The UK competition regulator has launched an investigation into the failure of airlines to offer cash refunds to travellers who have been unable to take their flights because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said its move...
Data from Legal & General Mortgage Club revealed since the announcement on November 5 the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme would be extended to the end of March 2021, adviser interest in these mortgages rocketed by 230% to 577. According to the club’s...
The new deals will be available from Wednesday 16 December, which is when those getting onto the property ladder can sign up to the new Help to Buy 2021 to 2023 scheme. Accord said its new collection of two and five-year fixed rate products were previously available...
The cost of borrowing at 90 per cent loan-to-value has jumped by 28 per cent over the past year, analysis by Mortgage Brain has revealed. Borrowers with a 10 per cent deposit who wish to fix for two years will now pay an average of £5.22 per £1,000, compared to £4.06...
The lender said it would also be offering £500 cashback as part of the deals which are available as two-year and five-year fixed rates starting at 3.69% and 3.94% respectively. The products have been unveiled just after the launch of TSB’s new mortgage products...
The Prudential Regulation Authority, part of the Bank of England, has warned buy-to-let lenders to take into account the reduction in mortgage interest tax relief when assessing applications. The phasing out of the tax relief was completed in April this year, which...
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has described the cut in the aid budget announced by Rishi Sunak as “shameful and wrong”. Archbishop of Canterbury (@JustinWelby) The cut in the aid budget - made worse by no set date for restoration - is shameful and wrong....
