Unfortunately it looks like high interest rates on Green Deal loans will leave many paying back You can get up to £650 back for agreeing to certain home improvements. Details are at gdcashback.decc.gov.uk. The increase, however, may be less indicative of the UK's obsession with DIY, and more to do with the cost of upgrading property by making it larger - as a quarter of the loans taken out are spent on creating more rooms. The average home improvement loan The bank estimates that in 2009, the total value of personal loans taken out across the UK for home improvements alone was more than £3.2bn and says it is likely to be a similar figure this year if the current trend continues. Steven Baillie, head of Lloyds TSB has seen 20% jump in home improvement loan applications Lloyds TSB has said it had seen a near 20% jump in the number of people looking to borrow money to improve their home. The bank said personal loan applications for home improvement work A woman took out a £4,500 home improvement loan to pay for a hitman to kill her husband. Zoe Kenealy was given the cash by a finance firm after claiming she wanted to install a new bathroom. In fact, she had recruited her lover Lee Waite - who lived HOME improvement grants for vulnerable home-owners and landlords are to be replaced by council-subsidised loans. A massive 29,300 privately-owned homes in the city do not meet the Government's decent homes standards. To bring them up to standard would cost .
The cash giveaways are part of Government efforts to cut carbon emissions and generate interest in energy efficiency after abysmally low take-up of an original Green Deal scheme, which offered home owners loans to finance the improvement themselves. Double-glazing installers and agents for other home improvements are keen to arrange these loans, often making more in commission on the linked finance than they do from selling their own services, but often at the expense of higher interest rates for the LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - British peer-to-peer lender Zopa been approved to borrow money for events such as car purchases, home improvements, weddings and consolidating existing loans, it said. A GLASGOW bank worker who was turned down for a loan by his own employer is about to celebrate And even though the banking giant poo-pooed his plans for a home improvements company, the Johnstone resident’s drive - and spousal permission - means .