Mortgage help or mortgage madness? What six times salary loans will mean
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
That's a conundrum that's kept politicians and central bankers awake at night for years. Now there's a new plan. Rachel Reeves unveiled a push for bigger mortgages this week, with the backing of the Bank of England, financial watchdogs, banks and building societies?
Protections in place since the credit crunch-induced crash will be swept away.
Are we forgetting the lessons from the financial crisis or adjusting the rules to meet a world that's different?
On this podcast, Georgie Frost, Tanya Jefferies and Simon Lambert talk bumper mortgages and what next.
Plus, the Chancellor has more plans, to get people investing, support the stock market and fire up the economy, will they work?
As the FTSE 100 flirts with a close above 9,000, is it time to buy British?
And what do you need to know about paying inheritance tax rather than the usual topic of avoiding it?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct. I'm Georgie Frost and joining |
| 0:07.9 | Simon Lambert and me today is Tanya Jeffries. And coming up, is Labor sowing the seeds for |
| 0:13.8 | mortgage meltdown? Could risky new lending plans aimed at helping first-time buyers get on the |
| 0:18.9 | property ladder spell disaster, pushing house |
| 0:21.8 | prices up even further. Meanwhile, the Chancellor is on a mission to get us to invest more, |
| 0:27.2 | so Simon and Tanya pour over the Leeds reforms. Elsewhere, is there a better way for the government |
| 0:32.6 | to get cash from our pensions that doesn't involve slapping inheritance tax on them? |
| 0:37.6 | Tanya will help you work out what and how to pay death duties. |
| 0:41.0 | You only have six months to do it. |
| 0:42.9 | And the first he saws past the 9,000 mark in a much-needed boost to the UK stock market. |
| 0:48.7 | That's before US inflation fears hit the market. |
| 0:51.7 | Where will it head next? |
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