UK house prices are currently rising rapidly, and this means that many of Britain’s landlords are struggling to make a return on their properties. This means that, because interest rates look set to rise, many landlords are now being forced to sell their properties for financial reasons. Whether you’re looking to sell your property because you’re feeling the financial pinch, you’re looking to sell because you’re relocating, or even if you just want to sell so that you can buy a different investment property, there are a number of ways that you can sell the property you’re renting out. Continue reading How to Sell the Property You’ve Been Renting Out →

Secured – or homeowner – loans involve much higher sums than unsecured – or personal –loans and generally have much longer repayment schedules. They can be used to fund any type of major purchase including home improvements, new cars and holidays and can also be used to pay off other debts, rolling a number of other loans into a single monthly repayment.

Continue reading Is a Secured Loan Right For Me? What Are My Options? →

Year after year, studies have shown that financial illiteracy is a big problem, not only in the UK but the rest of the world as well. The UK isn’t as bad off as some countries, but we’ve no cause to be complacent. Continue reading Financial Literacy Might Not Save the World, But It Could Help Save You →

The modern world undergoes rapid changes in almost all the rounds and financial management is not an exception. Increasing possibility of carrying on business abroad, establishment of the international financial institutions, international tourism and the numerous related factors require development of international financial system. Continue reading Opening a foreign bank account →

Big Winners

Jim Maroney was one happy fellow. He’d just won the Euro Millions lottery. Like everybody else, he had been buying tickets for years, never imagining to win, but unexpectedly, the day had come. Jim and his wife religiously watched the draw with TV dinner on their laps and tickets in hand. As the numbers came out and a little circle was drawn around the numbers on the ticket that matched, hearts were beating faster as the barrel rolled to eject the last ball. The fact that all the numbers matched is now history for them. Utter disbelief! Yes. But after a week, it had sunk in that they were millionaires. Continue reading A Story about Wealth Management →

n the housing industry, it’s called “negative equity.” In the automotive industry it’s called being “upside down.” In both cases, it means the same thing: You owe more money on an asset than the asset itself is worth. Continue reading How to Get Out of an Upside Down Car Loan with Negative Equity →