Last year we bought our home contents insurance policy through the comparison firm ComparetheMarket. We spent a long time inputting all of our details and after finding the policy we were happy with, paid the money to the chosen insurer, Esure. Recently, our garage was broken into and our bikes were stolen. We called up…
More than 800,000 private tenants in England and Wales could be behind on their rent, with young people and the self-employed most likely to have missed payments, research for a landlords group has found. The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) warned of a “rent debt crisis” and called for government action to help struggling tenants….
House prices in the UK are expected to fall by up to 5% next year, fuelled by rising unemployment and the end of the government’s stamp duty holiday. Halifax, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, said the economic fallout inflicted by the pandemic would catch up with the property market in 2021, after an unexpected boom during…
Q I have recently had an offer accepted on a new house. As a result, I am attempting to port and increase my current mortgage. The loan amount is being increased to an amount that I can comfortably afford. When speaking to a mortgage adviser, it would not allow them to process as there was…
Monday I’m looking at the list of names on the office wall of all the women I support, who are all involved in selling sex on the streets. It’s our weekly team meeting and I brief my colleagues on how the Friday night outreach team met Marcia, a homeless woman in a violent relationship. She…
Can you help me to get back a £453 tax rebate that HMRC has paid into someone else’s bank account? The matter is partially my fault, in that I gave the tax office the wrong bank details – using an account number from one Santander account, with the sort code from another we also hold….
