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Climate change inaction threatens interest rates

  • 04/10/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

As if the threat of global warming wasn’t bad enough, inaction by our politicians could hit our hip pockets, with mortgage interest rates rising faster than sea levels, as  Sue…

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    Levies shortfall plan where everyone’s a winner

    • 05/05/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    There is a lot of genuine angst around about the payment of levies or, more to the point, the inability to pay them. Just to be clear, there are no…

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      Lannock offer to cladding blocks as lender backs off

      • 22/05/2019
      • Author Jimmy-T

      The announcement that one of the country’s biggest non-bank mortgage lenders will refuse to finance the purchase of apartments known or suspected of having flammable cladding on or in their…

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