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It appears people are finally fed up with Brexit, couldn’t care less what happens next, and have decided to continue with their lives, or at least that is what the property market is signalling anyway. New statistics have shown that house prices are rising at a productive pace for the first time in a couple…

The popularity of equity release has been gathering pace for some time now, and this week it reached new highs when it was revealed that the sector had doubled in size in just over 36 months. Figures show that in the last 14 months homeowners have released around £3.4billion from their property, with many people…

It used to be that the majority of people who worried about money were people who didn't have a regular income, the unemployed, the retired etc but not now. Fast forward to February 2019, however, and regardless of whether you're working or unemployed, it seems that money worries are still prevalent. Research undertaken by a…

Contactless payments are all the rage these days - people paying by cold hard cash for goods has halved in a decade, with many people opting to use contactless cards or pay by phone. Notes and coins make up only three in every ten transactions these days. It's not hard to see the appeal. It…

We regularly highlight the plight of young people and document the struggle they endure when it comes to getting on the property ladder. It is the norm these days for a 30-year-old who is in full-time work to still be living at home with parents due to the price of homes up and down the…

We often get lambasted here at Quick Loans for our apparent ‘hard line’ approach, but we are not the worst. Check out our German friends who just repo'd someones dog. Whilst we have sympathy for people who fall on difficult times, we do have issues with people who take out financial aides and then decide…

It is predicted that within ten years 96% of all new cars will be bought on finance. It’s hardly surprising because car buying trends have been moving this way for many years now. There are a number of reasons for this. Rewind a couple of decades though, and it was very rare for someone to…

It wouldn't exactly be breaking news if we told you that a large portion of British families is in debt. It may surprise you to learn; however, that car finance and car credit are one of the biggest factors impacting on people's inability to keep their heads above water and the problem is worsening. In…

It comes to something when finances are that bad that you can't afford to go to work. But that is precisely what many workers are faced with according to a recent survey. Figures show that nearly 35 per cent of working people have had to pull a 'sicky' or miss work because they couldn't afford…

On Monday, Honda announced that it was closing their Swindon branch in 2022. Of course, the remainers were out in force on this one, blaming Brexit as usual. On this though, the opposite is true. The EU sold out Swindon Honda for French Farmers, Italian Cheesemakers and big German Car Manufacturers. The Honda plant is…