Latest blog from Equity Finance http://www.equity-online.co.uk Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GMT It is still very early to predict a return of the availability of sub-prime mortgages and, quite honestly, that's probably a good thing. In the years leading up to the credit crunch in 2007 too many mortgages were granted with insufficient regard to customer's credit worthiness or ability to meet the repayments as lenders scrabbled for increased market-share. http://www.equity-online.co.uk/Blog_020610.aspx http://www.equity-online.co.uk/Blog_020610.aspx Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GMT The government have announced that they have suspended stamp duty on properties bought by first time buyers up to the value of £250,000. The change comes into effect for all purchase completions from the 25th March 2010 until 25th March 2012. http://www.equity-online.co.uk/Blog_060410.aspx http://www.equity-online.co.uk/Blog_060410.aspx Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GMT According to Santander Mortgage's Remo Index, which monitors trends on a monthly basis, over 880,000 UK homeowners on tracker or fixed rate mortgages could be looking to remortgage in the next six months. This equates to some 4,848 potential remortgages each day over the next six months. http://www.equity-online.co.uk/blog_020210.aspx http://www.equity-online.co.uk/blog_030210.aspx Wed, 02 Feb 2010 18:00:00 GMT Here are some useful tips (and a few myths) which I hope you will find useful. http://www.equity-online.co.uk/blog_270209.aspx http://www.equity-online.co.uk/blog_270209.aspx Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:00:00 GMT At a time when the credit crunch has resulted in a partial collapse in the availability of mortgages we are extremely fortunate and proud to still have access to such a wide range of products. http://www.equity-online.co.uk/blog_160209.aspx http://www.equity-online.co.uk/blog_160209.aspx Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:15:00 GMT