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Thousands of Annuities Potentially Mis-sold

Pensions have been hit by a series of mis-selling scandals over the past decade, and the latest concerns annuities. Tens of thousands of pensioners could be in line for compensation because their pension scheme or financial adviser didn’t  tell them they could shop around for the best possible annuity at retirement. Many assumed they had [...]

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Paying your mortgage with plastic

Housing charity Shelter expresses concern at 1 million households using a credit card to  pay mortgage or rent last year. For help with Mis sold Mortgages and Buy to Let or Sub Prime Mortgage Compensation please take the Mis-sold Mortgage Claims test About 1 million families have resorted to using credit cards to pay their [...]

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Ten million people in UK may have overpaid or underpaid tax

Nearly ten million people in the UK have paid the wrong amount of tax. About £2bn was underpaid via the Pay as You Earn (PAYE) system in the past two years, with about 1.4 million people owing an average of £1,500 each. But £1.8bn has also been overpaid and some 4.3 million people will get [...]

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Norwich & Peterborough massive mis-selling to customers

Norwich & Peterborough Building Society apparently systematically mis-sold investments to hundreds, possibly thousands, of its customers, according to damning evidence that emerged this weekend. For help with Mis sold Mortgages and Buy to Let or Sub Prime Mortgage Compensation please take the Mis-sold Mortgage Claims test The society will tomorrow receive letters from solicitors acting [...]

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Mortgage Fraud in the Buy to Let Market

In recent years the relaxation of lending criteria for those persons wishing to become property landlords has meant that the  number of people buying houses purely to rent out to students and professionals alike has increased enormously. No longer was there any requirement for such mortgages to be limited to multiples of the borrowers earning capacity.  These [...]

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Many using credit cards to pay mortgage

Up to one million households have borrowed money on a credit card to pay their mortgage or  rent over the past year, a charity’s study suggests. For help with Mis sold Mortgages and Buy to Let or Sub Prime Mortgage Compensation please take the Mis-sold Mortgage Claims test Housing charity Shelter said this figure represented [...]

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Rents set to surge

Landlords are benefiting as residential rents rise due to a shortage of available  properties, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said on Friday. For help with Mis sold Mortgages and Buy to Let or Sub Prime Mortgage Compensation please take the Mis-sold Mortgage Claims test. The number of brokers saying rents increased in the three [...]

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The costly business of mortgage fraud

lan Cleary of Exact Mortgage Experts outlines the latest trends in mortgage fraud and  emphasises the importance of mortgage book assessment to spot fraudulent activity. For help with Mis sold Mortgages and Buy to Let or Sub Prime Mortgage Compensation please take the Mis-sold Mortgage Claims test In August 2009 two Chinese business people were [...]

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More repossessions than stated, says Shelter

Thousands more homeowners are having their houses repossessed than official figures  suggest, a leading housing charity has said as the City watchdog prepares to publish  repossessions data for the first time today. For help with Mis sold Mortgage Compensation please take the Mis-sold Mortgage Claims test Shelter, the housing charity, said that the number of [...]

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1.1million stuck in homes they can’t sell

More than one million homeowners are trapped with homes they cannot sell, research reveals today. For help with Mis sold Mortgage Compensation please take the Mis-sold Mortgage Claims test Around 1.1million have tried to move in the last year but have been unable to attract  buyers. Their plight can have a crippling impact as homeowners [...]

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