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Rent prices continue to rise...
Rental costs increased in March for the second month in row, as the heavy demand for propertiessurpassed the availability of places rent. The survey, by letting agency LSL Property Services, showed th...
Consumer confidence up but o...
Consumer morale saw a limited recovery in March, according to new figures from Nationwide Building Society. Nationwide’s consumer confidence index, which uses survey results to assign a scaled n...
Credit card charges to be ba...
Changes coming into force later in 2011 will see Bank of Scotland credit card customerspaying interest charges based on their personal usage levels. The Scotsman reports that fromAugust, ‘borrow...
Interest only borrowers at r...
Debt charities have warned that millions of ‘interest only’ borrowers could struggle to keep up their mortgage repayments if interest rates were to rise. Even a small increase in interest...