The UK property market has been defying gravity for some years now.
Last week the statistic of note was that £1 billion of mortgages are being written every seven days, this week it’s that there are a record 1,000 homes in London priced at £2 million or more.…
Advertising is interesting from a historical perspective as the creative used in them tends to reflect societies at given point in time.
This rationale is behind an exhibition by the central bank in Finland detailing 100 years of bank advertising in the sparsely populated nordic nation.
The Bank …
Not to go on about bad debts this week – but there are some other numbers we have been digging up as we start to take the temperature of the economy this quarter.
Right now the numbers are starting to get interesting around credit cards, household debt and …
Investor education has been identified as a key issue facing the financial services industry yet when it comes to home loans consumers, it seems, are no fools with one in two (49.8%) aware of the exact rate of interest they are paying on their loan.
The findings stem …
Bank of Queensland may have some of the most satisfied customers in the country but the bank may have gone too far and over promised in a new television campaign promoting its home loans.
The bank appears to play on some of the insecurities that many people have …
The thought of an unprecedented wave of sub-prime mortgages flooding the Australian market is a scary one, perhaps even to the most liberal of lenders.
Purchasing a home, whether it be for owner-occupier purposes or as an investment, and for most, after years of saving for a deposit, …


