by Kiran Najran | May 23, 2018 | Currency Market Updates
With currencies, the only thing we can predict is the unpredictable! But while we can’t forecast the future, we can make sure your money is protected wherever the exchange rate moves. A forecast is a prediction or estimate of a future event or trend. Nothing is...
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by Kiran Najran | May 3, 2018 | Currency Market Updates
April is the cruelest month, said TS Eliot. It certainly was for overseas property hunters as the mid-April highs of $1.45 and €1.16 fell away dramatically to the lowest rate since January. Could this be the start of a torrid few months? Is it possible that the pound...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 19, 2018 | Currency Market Updates
Wheat fields, hedges and baby cows all offer clues as to why you should talk to us about protecting your property budget from currency movements this spring. As soon as the warm weather arrived this week, so did the strength of the pound. Could the two be related? Do...
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by Christopher Nye | Mar 28, 2018 | Currency Market Updates
Agreeing to buy a property at one price and paying for it a month later is like flipping a coin. You stand at least a 50:50 chance of losing money on your currency. But can you guess on how many occasions you would have had to stump an extra £10,000 for a mid-range...
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by Ricky Bean | Feb 28, 2018 | Currency Market Updates
With currency, as the weather, be prepared for a sudden change in the climactic conditions! At the time of writing much of England is blanketed in snow and there is a blizzard, literally, outside the Smart Currency Exchange offices. Yet today is the first day of...
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by Ricky Bean | Feb 1, 2018 | Currency Market Updates
Denise and Wendy Barker, from Essex, were left £120,000 as an inheritance and wanted to spend it on something that the whole family would enjoy, including the five children they have between them. “It would be a holiday home where we could all meet up, to spend...
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