August, 2011
18th August 2011 | by thisworksadmin | FACF News, News & Articles
According to the most recent Land Market Survey by the Royal Institue of Chartered Surveyors, farmland prices reached an all time high in the first half of 2011 with an estimated average price of a shade over £6,000 per acre. Demand is far outsripping supply – 50% of respondents to the survey reported increases in […]
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15th August 2011 | by thisworksadmin | Uncategorised
Looting a Poundland or stealing water – our riot idiots have nothing on these demi-wits mainly from across the pond. These apparently true stories make some of our rioters look positively Einstein next to the feckless persons contained in them. Please enjoy these little anecdotes though bear in mind, whilst doing so, that these people can […]
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12th August 2011 | by thisworksadmin | FACF News, News & Articles
The interests of our customers are always at our heart and we always like to know how they are getting on. Last year we raised a farm loan for some land for our customers in South Wales. The land finance has clearly been used well and our customers have recently contacted us again about a […]
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12th August 2011 | by thisworksadmin | Uncategorised
I’ve read a report suggesting that the recent riots in London and other cities in England will cost the taxpayer £100m. This is on top of the distress and heartache, caused to the majority, by a mindless minority. What investor is going to put money into this once green and pleasant land if our government […]
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8th August 2011 | by thisworksadmin | FACF News, News & Articles
ANNOUNCEMENT We ask you to note that we are nothing to do with and have no connection with (nor have we ever had) with UK Farm Finance or its successors and nor have we ever done business with them. We are aware that UK Farm Finance was associated with UK Finance and Mortgage Services Limited, which entered […]
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8th August 2011 | by thisworksadmin | FACF News, Finance Tips, News & Articles
One of our competitors has recently changed the term bridging finance to opportunity finance. Presumably, the term opportunity would imply that there is some benefit to the customer. Our competitor appears to be a slick operation – on the day after you call you’ll get a visit and during this visit an assessment of your business […]
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1st August 2011 | by thisworksadmin | Uncategorised
I had cause to travel to London on 29th July 2011. Given that this meant bending the plastic a little, I thought I’d better call the credit card company, in this case HSBC, to let it know that I’d be doing this – after all I did not want the darlings to think a tea leaf […]
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