A report by the Equity Release Council claims that owning your own home makes you considerably better off in the long term compared with renting. In their report called Home Advantage: intergenerational perspectives on property wealth in later life the Council looked at trends in pensions, mortgages and home ownership over the past 30 years.…
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Each year we host a Charity Christmas Quiz and this year our chosen charity was British Heart Foundation. British Heart Foundation fund research into all heart and circulatory diseases and the things that cause them. We would like to thank all our guests who made the quiz a lively and enjoyable evening. Most of all…
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This festive season we are exploring Christmas traditions across the world to see how other countries celebrate. In our research we have included England, Poland, Columbia, Italy, India, Portugal, Germany, Australia and Ukraine. Christmas in England An English Christmas has many traditions. The carols we sing leading up to Christmas tell the story of the…
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Could you be the one to inherit a substantial sum of money from a family member you didn’t know? Every year, millions of people die without making a Will. In this situation a deceased person’s estate (property, possessions, money) must be shared out according to certain rules. These are called the rules of intestacy. Only…
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A new report prepared by Zoopla found an increase in demand for properties in the South East of 19%. Zoopla believe this is due to seasonal demand, the lenders moving towards lowering their mortgage rates and better news on inflation. All these factors are giving buyers more confidence Compared with pre-pandemic levels, house prices are…
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Residential property experts make a career out of showing the rest of us how to make our homes more sellable. They suggest we de-clutter to make our houses look bigger and brighter, or offer more subtle ideas such as decorating the place with flowers and having a coffee pot brewing when potential viewers visit. A…
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Bretherton Law have created a Facebook advertising group to support the local branch of The Hygiene Bank. The Hygiene Bank is a charity that exists to provide people with the basics they need to stay clean in a bid to wipe out hygiene poverty which, unfortunately, is an increasing problem in the current cost of…
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As well as causing a slump in property sales, the increasing cost of mortgages is having serious knock-on effects in the buy-to-let market, where owners are now faced with higher borrowing costs eating into their profit margins. The situation has worsened over the last few weeks as mortgage lenders have withdrawn and repriced many of…
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A key speaker at a government-sponsored conference has predicted that the era of regular annual house price increases is now at an end. David Miles, from the government’s Office for Budget Responsibility said: “Those forces driving house prices up are going to be much weaker, I suspect, in the next 40 years than they have…
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A few years ago anyone travelling up the A1 towards Peterborough or on the rail line to Bedford will have seen evidence of the region’s history of brickmaking. Bricks were produced for over a century and were known as Fletton bricks, a generic name to describe bricks made from lower Oxford clay. Nowadays most of…
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