The Post Office is introducing talking cash machines for blind and partially-sighted customers as part of an upgrade to its ATM network. The upgrade will take place over the next six to nine months.
The speech enabled machines will allow customers to plug earphones into the machines and be verbally guided through their transactions. They will input their PIN and select the service they require
Football fans spend the most on their hobby – an average of £276 per supporter over the past 12 months, with the biggest spenders forking out up to £5,000
Tickets, food and drink, satellite TV packages and travel are most popular pulls on sports fans’ purse strings
Being a sports fan cost UK adults over £20 billion in the last year, according to new research from Post Office Money Credit C
Market-leading fixed rated in two, three and five-year terms and at 75%, 80% and 90% LTV
Market-leading Help to Buy mortgages offer £400 cashback on completion and a free valuation
Post Office Money has today launched a new range of competitive mortgages,with market leading rates across two, three and five-year terms as well as market-leading Help to Buy products – which have the added
Cost of moving home nearly double what buyers expect it to be
Homebuyers spending average £13,219 on moving home,* compared to the £7,496 they expect
The cost of moving has increased by 65 per cent over the last decade, though costs have fallen 19 per cent in last year due to stamp duty reforms
The combined ‘additional costs’ of moving home, such as estate agent fees and conveyancing
More than a third (36 per cent) of all properties sold last year were in areas where the average home was unaffordable for first-time buyers
Average property prices equivalent to more than five times the average income of first-time buyers
Tale of two cities: Brighton and Southampton at different ends of the affordability spectrum despite being separated by just 70 miles
Soaring house price
Post Office Money has today enhanced its already competitive mortgage range by announcing new fee-free mortgage deals, including the lowest Help to Buy two-year fixed rate mortgage in the market for a product without an arrangement fee.*
The new range of mortgage deals includes:
80% LTV 2.28% two-year fixed rate mortgage**
80% LTV 3.03% five-year fixed rate mortgage **
85%
Post Office Money has today enhanced its already competitive mortgage range by announcing new fee-free mortgage deals, including the lowest Help to Buy two-year fixed rate mortgage in the market for a product without an arrangement fee.*
The new range of mortgage deals includes:
80% LTV 2.28% two-year fixed rate mortgage** 80% LTV 3.03% five-year fixed rate mortgage ** 85% LTV 2.34% t
70 per cent increase in average value of payments sent abroad for wedding-related expenses
73 per cent of travel agents report increase in demand for weddings located on a beach, with Cyprus, the Caribbean and Greece amongst the top destinations
Couples concerned about foreign exchange costs can plan ahead and fix rates up to a year in advance
Apparently life’s a beach when you get ma
The UK’s parents and grandparents have spent £18billion in the last year supporting their adult children* and grandchildren Nearly one in five (18 per cent) parents and grandparents fully support the lifestyles of their offspring 17 per cent who provide financial support say they helped to pay off their child or grandchild’s debt A third of total savings pots are put aside specifically for t
Two out of five UK workers (38 per cent) earned less than the average UK property gained in value over the last 12 months House prices increased by an average of £18,119 over the last year – 69 per cent of the average wage (£26,426) UK workers only caught up to their house’s ‘earnings’ by 4th September last year However, annual property earnings have fell by £5,800 compared with the previo
Post Office Money launches market leading new mortgage rates, including fee-free options
Post Office Money has today launched a new range of market-leading fixed rate mortgages, as it continues its bid to become one of the UK’s leading financial services providers.
The new range includes two market-leading deals:
3 year fixed 2.24% 85% LTV (£1,495)
3 year fixed 2.68% 90% L
Two-thirds (66 per cent) of people say their savings habits is impacted by their parents
Nine million (18 per cent) think their parents were bad savers
..and eight per cent hold them responsible for having a negative impact on their own savings
Savings begins at home: Post Office Money encourages families to talk to their children about the importance of saving
Two-thirds of the UK (66 per
