Windfall For Halifax Mortgage Customers

So the Halifax is going to make payments up to £500m to 300,000 of its customers. Here at Michael Usher Mortgage Services We ask, is this the new way that these banking corporations are going to operate. In a spirit of openness and fairness…We’ll see. The reason why the Halifax, now part of the Lloyds […]

Interest Rates Up This Year, Get Rid Of Credit Card Debt Now

As I have mentioned before, all the financial experts are warning of interest rises this year, possibly in the first half of the year. If you need mortgage advice in  Surrey click here Good news for savers, but unlese advice is your mortgage rate is fixed, you will see your mortgage payments increase. There’s a […]

Abbey Leads The Way For First Time Buyers

Good news for first time buyers in the local area. Here in Camberley, first time buyers have been given an opportunity to get a foot on the housing ladder. One of our favourite lenders Abbey, have launched an exclusive 85 per cent first time buyer loan to value. This is a three-year fixed rate mortgage […]

The dark art of obtaining a mortgage

Obtaining a mortgage in surrey is no different to any other part of the country. Below is an atricle by mortgage broker Andrew Montlake of Coreco, which was published on the BBC site. It makes some very interesting observations. “The dark art of obtaining a mortgage” Money Talk by Andrew Montlake In recent weeks there […]

The Best Mortgage Rate In Camberley 2.29pc

Every body wants the lowest rates on their mortgage. Here at Michael Usher Mortgage services Frimley, we try and achieve that. With bank rates at all time low at 0.5%, you might wonder why you are still paying 5-6%. Quite rightly, but no matter how loud we shout, we as consumers, just do not get […]

Camberley's House Price index

Well there isn’t actually a house price index for Camberley, Aldershot, Farnborough or any of the the other local towns. However the Halifax has released its latest figures showing the national trends. As I have written before, the south of England, still has a shortage of properties to sell, even though it currently is a […]

No Life Insurance For Camberley House Owners?

I think we all know that life insurance is important, but we just ignore the fact that really we need it. In fact 43% of house owners do not have any life insurance to cover their mortage debt. Now, I always try and encourage people to take out a life insurance policy. Sure I earn […]

UK Mortgage Approvals Fall in September

Mortgage news for home buyers  in Surrey and Hampshire According to the latest figures released by the Bank of England on Friday, October 29th showed that residential mortgage approvals remained low in September 2010. The data suggests that UK housing market is still fragile and might not be ready for another quantitative easing (QE) planned […]

Value Decreases For Camberley Houses?

The value of houses in Camberley have stabilised recently, this I think is down to demand locally. I talk to many to many estate agents in Camberley, Farnborough, Yateley and other local areas and the mood is positive. This may change with the intervention of the recent finacial policies set out by the the government, […]

House Prices Up In Camberley

I talk to a lot of local estate agents in Camberley, Blackwater, Farnborough, Aldershot, you know all the local big towns, on a fairly regular basis. One thing they all tell me is that house prices are up. Not to the levels they were 2 or 2.5 years ago, but thing are beginning to look […]