by fpgonline | Sep 14, 2015 | Latest News & Blog
Some mortgage lenders are returning to products that require homebuyers to provide smaller deposits than have become the norm in recent years – with Nationwide and Santander re-introducing deals with a 95% loan-to-value requirement. The move has been attributed to “a...
by fpgonline | Sep 13, 2015 | Latest News & Blog
It is the only essential UK-wide adult identity reference. The ‘number’ itself is made up of both letters and numbers, however, they do not include D, F, I, Q, U or V to (historically) reduce handwriting errors… the combinations BG, GB, NK, KN, NT and ZZ are also...
by fpgonline | Sep 8, 2015 | Latest News & Blog
It has been dubbed the ‘Interest Only Time Bomb’ by the press in recent weeks, with many column inches and online reports dedicated to painting a bleak picture in which as many as 1.7 million people have no means of repaying their mortgage debt. The reports...
by fpgonline | Aug 19, 2015 | Latest News & Blog
The Bank of England policymakers’ message surrounding forthcoming interest rate rises are being heeded by UK households it would seem – with a report this week claiming that 78% of us now expect rate rises within the next year, with 48% anticipating the upward curve...
by fpgonline | Aug 7, 2015 | Latest News & Blog
Following the Bank of England’s ‘Super Thursday’ meeting in London, the Bank provided the latest Quarterly Inflation Report alongside its August Interest Rate decision – although the base rate remained frozen at its historical low 0.5% figure, the Bank pushed back...