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• One million homes face Interest-only remortgage threat
  

  Published 11th Aug 2010

  More than one million homeowners on interest-only mortgages face a repayment timebomb when they next come to remortgage

• British Gas payout opens door to sue energy firms if they waste your time with bill blunders
  

  Published 06th Aug 2010

  A landmark case could allow consumers left out of pocket by the blunders of big utility firms and other companies to claim compensation

• Distressed property sales to rise on bank reform
  

  Published 05th Aug 2010

  More distressed property sales are expected in the next 12 months as changes to international regulations will likely raise the capital cost of holding commercial property on banks' balance sheets, an industry body said

• Clydesdale and Yorkshire mortgage holders count cost of internal errors
  

  Published 05th Aug 2010

  Thousands of households face huge increases in mortgage payments after Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks uncovered a calculation error which meant some customers had been undercharged for years

• Second home owners to lose tax breaks
  

  Published 02nd Aug 2010

  Tens of thousands of second home owners stand to lose generous tax breaks on furnished holiday lets

• Conveyancing confusion causing chaos
  

  Published 02nd Aug 2010

  According to new research, us Brits are suffering from a worrying new affliction - confusion - we are scratching our heads and shrugging our shoulders over the basics of conveyancing, (the legal process of transferring property ownership) so just what can be done about it?..

• Making UK homes energy efficient would cost less than £3,000 per house, survey claims
  

  Published 14th Jul 2010

  The majority of the UK's least energy-efficient homes could be brought up to near-average green standards for less than £3,000, a new analysis claims today