Property Rescue Blog

The Office of Fair Trading has given 129 debt management companies three months to come into line after finding that some firms are overly focused on sales and even posing as charities.

Purchasing a new home is becoming increasingly cost-prohibitive, and it doesn’t look like the situation will improve any time soon.

Business group CBI predicts that the UK economy will have a slower recovery next year than previously believed.

My Home Finance is a pilot scheme testing a new lending option for financially marginalized groups.

Complaints filed with the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) are on the rise and, for the last 18 months, FOS has started naming and shaming those institutions that have received the most complaints.

Complaints filed with the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) increased by 2,076 in the first half of 2010, compared to the number received in the preceding six months.

An allowed banking process called setting off is on the rise and is leaving some customers broke.

A survey conducted by Schroders shows that nearly a third of the adults in the UK took money out of their savings over this past year to make up for income shortfalls.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) announced that the poorest families are the hardest hit by the first budget put out by the coalition government.

A MarKit and YouGov survey, which began 18 months ago, shows a depressing picture of personal finance in the UK. Of those polled, 86% expected their cost of living to increase, 22% of participants in the private sector reported a drop in job security and 23% believe that their property went down in value in August.