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End of the Tax Year Checklist

End of the tax year checklist Make more of your money with your adviser, before the end of the 2021/2022 tax year on 5 April 2022. As the end of the tax year approaches, there’s still time to take advantage of your annual tax-free allowances if you’ve not already done so. This is one of [...]

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Investing for children

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Cities start to attract property buyers again

By Kevin Peachey Personal finance correspondent, BBC News Published 24 December 2021 Prospective property buyers have returned to cities, with flats the most highly in demand during the autumn, according to property portal Rightmove. The UK housing market was relatively immune to the economic effects of Covid, with demand and price rises remaining high throughout [...]

Managing your money

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A third of first-time buyers accepted for mortgage on first try

Written by: Anna Sagar 13/12/2021 Just over a third (35%) of first-time buyers are accepted for a mortgage on their first try, down from about half (48%) in March last year before the pandemic. According to Aldermore’s first-time buyer index, a survey of 2,015 prospective first-time buyers, about 45% of prospective first-time buyers were rejected [...]

How the interest rate rise affects you

Everyone in the UK will be affected by rising prices - from a higher gas bill, to harder choices during the grocery shop. The idea of raising interest rates is to keep those current and predicted price rises, measured by the rate of inflation, under control. That is exactly what policymakers at the Bank of [...]

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