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This is Money Podcast

This is Money - the property and Corbynomics special

This is Money Podcast

This is Money

Business, Investing, Business News, News

4.4735 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Join Simon Lambert and Tanya Jefferies on their fascinating journey through the state of the property market.

From rising (maybe) mortgage rates, whether to fix your mortgage, solar panels, buy-to-let, unaffordable rents versus rent controls to outrageous increases in the cost of commuting courtesy of Virgin Trains. Plus stock market mayhem and a look at Corbynomics - the economic thoughts of the front-runner in the Labour Party leadership race. #mortgages #property #corbynomics #virgintrains #railfares #solarpanels #interestrates #trackers #fixedrates #pensions #islingtoncouncil

with Georgie Frost of Share Radio.

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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane

Producer: Georgie Frost


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Transcript

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0:00.0

A very warm welcome. You're listening to Share Radio.

0:04.1

I'm Georgie Frost here with you every weekday from 9 until 1 on digital online

0:07.7

and through the Share Radio mobile app, making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further.

0:12.1

The team from This Is Money, the award-winning finance website, back in the studio with me

0:16.1

for our weekly catch-up talking through the stories they've been tackling this week.

0:20.3

And today I'm joined by editor Simon Lambert, journalist Tanya Jeffries and on the agenda today. We've got a host

0:26.0

of property issues. Homeowners rushing to remortgage amid fears of a rate rise. But are there any

0:32.1

super cheap deals left? What next for mortgage rates to track or to fix? And if so, for how long the

0:38.4

rise of buy-to-let and how much higher can rents go?

0:42.1

Consumer price inflation has gone up by 38%. Whereas the median private rent has gone up by 80%. An extra

0:48.3

£30 a week that the average renter is paying on rent than they really should be.

0:53.5

And could the attraction of solar panels as an investment be killed off by proposed government cuts?

0:59.3

Also today, the fallout from Black Monday continues.

1:02.1

Billions wiped off the value of global companies over fears about the state of China's economy.

1:06.9

There is so little transparency around Chinese economic figures

1:10.6

and there is a degree of mistrust, frankly, across global markets.

1:14.3

Should investors sell up sit tight or even buy cheap shares

1:17.1

and is your pension in peril with a market mayhem survival guide coming up?

1:22.0

If you're a regular virgin train passenger, bad news I'm afraid in store for your bang balance,

1:26.6

and what is Corbinomics?

1:28.3

It's a real Black Swan moment in British politics. If Corbyn is going to win Labour

1:32.7

leadership, then the question of me, what will he do? And I think he's going to make British

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