by Chris Nye | Jul 15, 2021 | Case study, Currency 101
Last year, Debbie Blaber from West Sussex shook hands on a deal to buy a home in France for €197,000. When completing the purchase took longer than planned due to the pandemic, she watched as exchange rate movements made the price in pounds shoot up by thousands of...
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by Chris Nye | Jun 17, 2020 | Brexit, Coronavirus, Currency Updates
At Smart Currency Exchange, we’re often asked the same question, will the pound go up or down? The short answer is that even as traders who eat, drink and sleep currency and the fate of the pound, we have very little idea. No-one does. The movements of GBP/EUR...
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by Chris Nye | Jun 11, 2020 | Coronavirus, Property News
The global property market has, of course, been drastically affected by the coronavirus epidemic and the lockdowns. But international property professionals – everybody involved in helping people to buy and sell homes – have found new and creative ways of doing...
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by Chris Nye | Apr 22, 2020 | Currency Updates
When the global economy is in freefall, you may wonder why the pound has – after initial jitters – recovered to its average for the past three years. And where will it go by summer and the lockdown end? If you read the business press these days you’ll see fresh...
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by Chris Nye | Mar 27, 2020 | Coronavirus, Currency Updates
The coronavirus outbreak has made the currency markets even more unpredictable than usual. Here we highlight some of the main currency pairs that will affect UK clients, both living abroad or UK based but with interests abroad. At Smart Currency Exchange we’re very...
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