Mortgage worries? HSBC will match the low rates....

[DimPrawn]

...for a fee!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008...gages.property

HSBC shocks mortgage rivals with offer to match old rate - but fee could hit £5,000

Yes, for a mere £5000 arrangement fee, you can have a 5% mortgage again.

Boomed!

[SueEllen]

Do keep up.

That's yesterday's news.

[DimPrawn]

Simon Bowers The Guardian, Thursday April 10 2008

You are Threaded and I claim my free trip through time.

[SueEllen]

It was reported on the telly, in the Times online and the Telegraph online yesterday.

You need to widen your reading material....

[Spacecadet]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7337861.stm

Page last updated at 09:26 GMT, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:26 UK

[DimPrawn]

It was reported on the telly, in the Times online and the Telegraph online yesterday.

You need to widen your reading material....

I only read the Guardian (for a left wing view), the Daily Mail (for a right wing view) and CUK for a balanced, thoughtful and sensible view.

[SueEllen]

I only read the Guardian (for a left wing view), the Daily Mail (for a right wing view) and CUK for a balanced, thoughtful and sensible view.

I use an RSS reader to pick out stories to read from different sources. I only bother reading actual printed media on the train or on the weekends.

[HRH]

and CUK for a balanced, thoughtful and sensible view.

I have not laughed this much since I saw Neil Kinnock take a tumble on the beach!

[Bagpuss]

...for a fee!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008...gages.property

HSBC shocks mortgage rivals with offer to match old rate - but fee could hit £5,000

Yes, for a mere £5000 arrangement fee, you can have a 5% mortgage again.

Boomed!

Smoke and mirrors, what's the APR with the arrangement fee?

[hyperD]

Ah Kinnock, now there's a little piggy with his brood of piglets firmly dropping all pretense of their socialist morality and stuffing and snuffling and slurping their little snouts in the Brussel's trough.