Buying
Facebook takes on eBay and Gumtree with its own online marketplace for app users
Facebook is launching its own free-to-use classified-ads platform for buying and selling goods locally
4 October 2016
New. Help to Buy ISAs - free cash
In a government push to help first-time buyers, this week Help to Buy (H2B) ISA savings launched. Here are the basics...
2 December 2015
Guest comment: Buyers and sellers are being ripped off by estate agents
Stella Creasy MP explains why she's calling for estate agents to be banned from charging fees to both buyers and sellers
24 November 2014
Guest Comment: Sarah Beeny decodes estate agent speak
Estate agent windows are a hotbed of flowery language. If you're baffled by descriptions, Sarah Beeny decodes them here
7 November 2014
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'My hamster ate my post': HMRC reveals most bizarre tax return excuses as deadline looms
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Martin Lewis VIDEO: Should you pay off your Plan 1 student loan?
7 January 2020
If you started university between 1998 and 2012, or since then in Scotland and Northern Ireland, you'll have a Plan 1 student loan. While much is written about whether those with savings should overpay the current English Plan 2 student loans, there's little out there about Plan 1. I wanted to change that, so here's a video explaining how to decide... -
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16 December 2019
Update Note 25 May 2017: The ready reckoners below have been updated with the new 2017/2018 living loan amounts. Also since first writing this blog, and seeing the strength of feeling it attracted, I have written an open letter to the Uni Minister asking him to start telling people about this. Yet sadly received his no we won’t...
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