February, 2013
22nd February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | FACF News, News & Articles
Refinance is essentially a means to free up the cash value from assets already owned within your business, injecting much needed capital for use in other areas. Releasing equity from your existing unencumbered tractors, combines, vehicles, machinery, and potentially even milking and dairy equipment can release funds for a building project, to pay bills, or […]
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22nd February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | FACF News, News & Articles
Being a market leader in the arrangement of farm finance for some time, it is only to be expected that we should recognise the trends and be arranging finance for wind turbines. Many of our customers, in the rural community, are seeking to diversify into new areas for extra income and an investment in a […]
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22nd February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | Case Studies
In this case our customer wanted to buy a farm and needed an agricultural mortgage, but her deposit depended upon the sale of some other land and property which fell through. In keeping with our normal policy, of only charging on acceptance of an offer, our customer had nothing to pay. Not all brokers for […]
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22nd February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | Case Studies
We are grateful to Mrs K Amor for letting us have some feedback after we arranged a remortgage for a farmhouse. Arranging mortgage for farmhouses is not always straightfoward and it’s nice to know that our efforts in raising farm finance are so appreciated. We hope this gives confidence to other people, looking for farm finance, […]
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22nd February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | Case Studies
We arranged a long-term farm loan for this customer, Mr Brunt of Ceredigion, whose requirements for farm finance were made difficult by some adverse credit. Mr Brunt was kind enough to write to us with his comments as follows: ‘Throughout our dealings I have been impressed by your professionalism and your grasp of what to others […]
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22nd February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | Case Studies
Our customer, Miss F of North Manchester, approached us with some difficult circumstances. The farm, which she used for her business, was owned by her grandfather who was elderly and unwell and needed some cash. He had always planned to give the property to our customer but, as he needed some money now, our customer […]
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22nd February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | FACF News
Mark Bracegirdle was recently instructed to act as an expert witness in a divorce case in the Kendal County Court. The brief was to report on the availability of a mortgage for a property with an agricultural restriction. The case, however, was not straightforward; the house was in close proximity to the rest of the […]
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22nd February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | Uncategorised
Our customer needed finance for land, which he was buying next door to his house. After the loan for land had completed our customer said this about us: ‘May I take this opportunity to thank you once again, your personal level of customer service was first class. I will stay in touch because I am […]
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21st February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | News & Articles, Planning Legal and Tax
To farmer Robert Fidler he must be hearing that old fairy tale about a wolf huffing and puffing to blow his house down. Without any planning consent at all, Mr Fidler thought it a cracking idea to build a house and hide it behind bales of straw, until he thought it was safe to raise […]
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7th February 2013 | by thisworksadmin | News & Articles, Planning Legal and Tax
Consultancy Parsons Brinckerhoff has been commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government to carry out a study of neighbourhood planning in rural areas. This exercise will “document the experiences and challenges encountered by neighbourhood planning ‘front runner’ projects in rural areas”. Planning Minister Nick Boles said that at least 169 neighbourhood planning areas […]
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