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...“Previously, older borrowers may have used [mortgages] for home improvement, travel or to help a younger family member get on the property ladder,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, a mortgage...
...“We had a lot of good news in recent months, helped by falls in inflation,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...When the bartender offers an absinthe cocktail known as a Corpse Reviver, it feels like a wry commentary on Maxim’s return to grace....
...“She’s decisive, courageous and single-minded,” says a person who has long known her. “[But] she’s like Louis XIV. ‘L’Etat, c’est moi. I am Bangladesh.’”...
...“What’s opened the door to these improvements is the better than expected inflation figures,” said David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...The massive glass-roofed nave was assigned to Henri Deglane; the middle section, the 17m-high gallery known as the Salon d’Honneur, to Albert Louvet; and the rear section, now a science museum known as the...
...Of course, this being couture there were clever techniques everywhere such as night-blue mohair trousers embroidered with habotai silk “feathers” as well as joyful colour combinations such as candy pink...
...On an interest-only deal, that would fall to £917 a month, according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...But in Parisian, word reversal has been so standard for decades, or perhaps centuries, that it’s become a dialect unto itself, known as verlan — a word that itself derives from the reversal of “l’envers”...
...David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C Mortgages, said: “Many [borrowers] may have lost track of how much fixed rates have improved since the pandemonium following the ‘mini’ Budget....
...For a borrower with a £200,000 mortgage over 25 years on a standard variable rate of 7.99 per cent, their payments will rise by £67 a month — or £800 a year — according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...However, “If people do lock in a rate, it doesn’t mean they have to take it when the time comes,” says David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C Mortgages....
...It’s also useful to understand the difference between chemical (or “organic”) and mineral (also known as “inorganic” physical) sunscreens....
...I’ve known the guy for nearly 50 years. He’s not as ideological as people say. I think his son Lachlan is quite ideological. But for Rupert, it’s about power....
...is known as much for food as music and this year’s gastronomy roll-call is tasty: from Ben Quinn’s sold-out Long Table Banquet in the Woods to a restaurant pop-up with Max La Manna, The Cat’s Whiskers cocktail...
...a “disrupter” as he chats with guests in his family’s restaurant, Les Chalets de l’Arcs....
...David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C, said many lenders were yet to return to the high loan-to-value market in the wake of the “mini” Budget....
...Doubles at The Langham, which occupies 13 floors of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark skyscraper formerly known as the IBM Building, (and whose concierge can organise tickets and tours) cost from $445; see langhamhotels.com...
...When C&C bought Tennent’s from AB InBev in 2009 as part of a £180mn deal, it shed the beer from its portfolio for, as one newspaper put it at the time, its “Rab C Nesbitt image”, and AB InBev continues to...
...David Hollingworth, director at L&C mortgages, said it was a “real positive” that some lenders had already started to come back with fixed rate mortgages, which should lead to “more competition, sharpening...
...Semi-retired heart surgeon Samer Nashef, known as Goliath to crossword addicts, reminded solvers back in April of one of the undercurrent themes of 2022....
...“The base rate changes are coming thick and fast,” says David Hollingworth, director at mortgage broker L&C....
...David Hollingworth, director at broker L&C Mortgages, says the Help to Buy equity loan — available in England, Scotland and Wales in various forms — has helped many people get on the ladder or make their...
...Rapidly rising interest rates were “the first domino to drop” while SVB was an instance of the second, Fink wrote as he warned that other regional banks and investors who rely on leverage could also follow...
...One of the very few parfumiers who will admit using contemporaneously farmed civet is the man known as Russian Adam, based in Jakarta, founder of the niche fragrance brand Areej Le Doré....
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