Mortgage & Protection Guides

Chancellor John Healey delivers the Autumn Budget on Wednesday 28 October, his first since taking the job. Property tax speculation has been running since the summer, and most of it has been wrong. At Drummonds Finance Group the question we are being asked most often is whether to hold off on a purchase or a remortgage until the Budget has been and gone. This sets out what is already law, what has been ruled out, what is still guesswork, and what any of it means for your mort

The Bank of England held the Bank Rate at 3.75% on Thursday 17 September. That is the sixth hold of 2026, and the rate has now sat at 3.75% since December last year. At Drummonds Finance Group, we have spent this week fielding calls from clients whose fixed rates end over the winter, and the question is always the same one: do I move now or wait and see? This is what the decision actually changes, and what it does not. The headline is dull. What sits underneath it is not. The