This week's No S*!@ Sherlock award goes to Intelligent Finance.
The company “released figures” showing that, all things being equal
such as £6,219 in savings in an offset mortgage account, people
in Scotland, where the average house price is £71,799, will pay
off their mortgages on average 39 months early compared with people
in Greater London paying an average £214,296, who finish 15
months earlier.
IF chief executive Gren-ville Turner tells us: “These new figures
throw an interesting crosslight on the housing market.”
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