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A Guide to Boiler and Central Heating Cover

  Central heating breakdowns always seem to happen at the worst possible time, but you can guard against them with maintenance cover. When it’s cold and wet you rely your central heating system, so a breakdown can be doubly frustrating. Breakdown cover can ensure that you have someone to call if things go wrong, plus…

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Should You Use An Estate Agent To Sell Your Home?

  Selling your home can be time-consuming and stressful. We discuss the benefits and costs of using estate agents to sell your home. When you decide to sell your home, you want to get the best price with minimum fuss. You don’t want too many people traipsing through your property with no intention of buying.…

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Remortgage To Save Money – A Guide

Given that your mortgage payments will likely represent your biggest monthly financial outlay, it stands to reason that any way of reducing them could go a decent distance to improving your quality of life – or at least free up some cash that will always be handy for something else. Remortgaging – the process of…

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A Guide To Selling Your Home

  What you need to know, and the steps you need to take, to make selling your home as easy and stress-free as possible. Selling your home can feel like a daunting challenge. With so much to think about, it can be difficult to know where to start; however, following these steps can alleviate much…

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A Guide to Buy-to-Let Mortgages

Opting for a buy-to-let mortgage is a serious financial commitment, which is why you cannot afford not to read our essential guide. You may be dreaming of having a portfolio of properties and a regular monthly income that will lead you to retirement and beyond. This may be achievable, but if you are going to…

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The Benefits Of Professional Mortgage Advice

  Buying a house is probably the single biggest purchase you will ever make so it’s common sense to get professional advice to help you choose the right mortgage product for you. A mortgage is, simply, a loan to enable you to buy land or property. The loan is secured against your property which can be repossessed if…

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Fixed Rate vs Tracker & Variable Mortgages: Which Is Best For You?

  In times of economic uncertainty, which kind of mortgage should you entrust your home and family’s future to? We take a look at the prospects. Generally the old adage ‘safe as houses’ still holds. Houses and the land they stand on are material assets – even if their nominal market value declines the value…

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The Best Smart Home Devices

  New smart home devices are flooding the market, promising to create more time, better security, lower energy use and more efficiency in the home. This “Internet Of Things” is the latest boom in the tech industry and reports coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show in China this month suggest the market will go from…

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The Benefits Of An OffSet Mortgage – Are You Missing Out?

  The Offset Mortgage is growing in popularity as savers continue to struggle to earn a good interest rate on their savings. Interest rates on savings remain at around 1% which means homeowners could benefit by combining their savings and mortgage balances. Offset Mortgages currently only account for 10% of the UK mortgage market. Are borrowers missing out?…

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Could Home Equity Release Fund Your Retirement?

With delayed retirement, uncertain economic stability and growing inflation, could Home Equity Release provide the financial benefits retirees are seeking? Over the past decade, our idea of what constitutes retirement has altered dramatically. Far from the traditional view of retirees content to while away their twilight years with few interests beyond gardening, the generation of…

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