Customers not getting the full value of their jewellery from cash for gold companies

It has been claimed in a recent report that companies that offer cash for gold jewellery are not giving consumers the full value of their jewellery. In fact, the report claims that quite often consumers are only receiving a fraction of the worth of the jewellery from the firms. According to the consumer campaign group Which? consumers are getting ’shockingly bad value’ on their gold jewellery given how the value of gold has increased. Read more

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No fees please

A new range of mortgages have been launched by a leading building society which come with absolutely no fees.

Yorkshire Building Society has announced the new range with the aim of simplifying the mortgage market for borrowers.

The firm is promoting its range as having no product fees, no legal fees, no standard valuation fee, no money transfer fee and no higher lending charge for re-mortgages.

The leading product in the range is a five-year fixed-rate mortgage at 5.89 per cent but the building society has a large number of deals on offer.

“There has been an inexorable rise in product fees in recent months, as lenders compete to get in to Best-Buy tables with headline rates,” said Yorkshire’s product development manager David Heshon.

“It has become increasingly difficult for customers to work out what the best deal is.

“With this new range of products what you see is what you get – a straightforward rate, with no additional up-front costs,” he added.

Borrowers, particularly those who are venturing into the property market for the first time, are finding it increasingly difficult to find a mortgage that best suits their needs so shopping around for deals such as this can be extremely beneficial.

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