Featured Articles Archive for May 2008

Welcome to our archive of featured articles for the month of May 2008

• Watch out for mortgage arrangement fees [10.05.08]
  These days taking out a mortgage can be very expensive and difficult. A couple of years ago, lenders were doing all that they could to make it easier and more affordable to take out a mortgage, such as offering higher income multiples and increasing repayment periods for borrowers.
  
• Vorderman gets slated again over promotion of risk loans [10.05.08]
  It seems that Carol Vorderman can't do right for doing wrong these days, after being slated once again by financial industry officials over her promotion of risky loans. The Countdown star has been the face of First Plus loans for a number of years now, and over the past couple of years has found herself at the centre of controversy as a result of the financial products that she has promoted.