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Chelsea’s five-year fixed-rate mortgage

3.19 per cent deal comes with a fee of £1,495 and is available to borrowers with a deposit of 30 per cent or more

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Best mortgage rates go private

Some private banks will price their mortgage rates relative to overnight Libor, which is closer to Bank of England base rate at just under 0.6 per cent

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Best mortgage rates go private

Yet another record low mortgage deal

Just when I thought fixed-rate mortgages had hit a low, another lender comes out of the woodwork with an even lower deal

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Yet another record low mortgage deal

Water bills to rise by 5.7 per cent

Customers pay for multibillion infrastructure upgrade as Ofwat sets aggregate price rises for industry

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Water bills to rise by 5.7 per cent

Fixed-rate mortgages buck rising trend

Homeowners can now secure cheaper fixed-rate mortgages than they could a year ago – but variable rates are set to rise

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Fixed-rate mortgages buck rising trend

Tracker mortgage lenders under pressure

Deals affected by banks’ ability to borrow amid continuing doubts about economic outlook

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Tracker mortgage lenders under pressure

End looms for stamp duty holiday

As of today, there are just two months left for first-time buyers to avoid paying stamp duty on their first home

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End looms for stamp duty holiday

Lender offers record low ten-year mortgage fix

Norwich & Peterborough to launch best-buy deal of 3.99% for up to 75 per cent loan-to-value

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New warning on equity release mis-selling

Investigation by consumer group Which? finds the quality of advice ‘wanting’, with nearly a quarter of qualified advisers failing a benchmark test

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New warning on equity release mis-selling

Rental yields are key in buy-to-let equation

Yields are increasing, but there are few areas of the UK where they enable landlords to meet criteria for 80 per cent loan-to-value

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Rental yields are key in buy-to-let equation