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Taking away the pain for first-time buyers.
There’s a very good reason why moving house has been voted time and again as top of the list of life’s stresses. Most of us who have done it once, make promises that that’s it, we’re never moving again. But of course, like the pain of childbirth, we do eventually...
Remortgaging hits 10-year high
Written by: Christina Hoghton 13/12/2018 More borrowers are taking advantage of low rates now to lock into a new deal There were 50,500 new homeowner remortgages completed in October, 23.2% more than in October 2017. This totalled £9.2bn of remortgaging in the month...
Push review – a whirlwind tour of rocketing rents and personal tragedy
An unenviable task … Leilani Farha, the UN’s special rapporteur on adequate housing, gathers evidence in Chile. Photograph: Janice d’Avila Oliver Wainwright @ollywainwright Tue 10 Sep 2019 17.39 BST Last modified on Wed 11 Sep 2019 11.07 BST ‘I don’t believe that...
Boomerang millennials forcing parents to dip into their pension pots
Young adults returning to the family nest are costing their parents around £5,000 a year Boomerang millennials returning to live at home are costing their parents thousands in extra bills and forcing them to dip into their pension pots, new research reveals. One in...