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John Yerou

John Yerou is a British executive and serial entrepreneur, who has founded a number of financial services companies. He is best known for founding Mortgage Quest, an unbiased and wholly independent financial service company. During his career, he has held the positions of director, vice director and managing director for a variety of tech-led companies, before becoming a true pioneer of independent financial services in the UK.

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Resolved: the key buy-to-let query contractors eyeing an investment property are understandably asking right about now.

15th April, 2024 | Limited Companies

Everything contractors need to know about home loans, to ensure the biggest monthly bill works for you.

21st March, 2024 | Money

Freelancer Financials homes in on Jeremy Hunt’s key announcements affecting UK housing, including implications for your own bricks and mortar.

The UK housing market desperately needs a fillip, but chancellor Jeremy Hunt won’t roll out the very big guns until just before contractors go to the polls.

When market forces are too erratic to fathom, the best mortgage for contractors is entirely based on your now, and what you want from your tomorrow.

Revealed: the paperwork bound to impress your contractor mortgage lender.

15th December, 2023 | Money

Lacking boldness, relevance and even substance, yesterday’s chancellor is one that contractors who have property will want to forget.

23rd November, 2023 | Money

Today’s a big acid test for our well-heeled chancellor. But for the good of your home loan, property, or investment, will he pass it?

Slow and steady is inflation’s new trajectory, helped massively by a sharp drop in October -- which should now ease contractors’ interest rate fears.

We are where we are, which - decoded for contractors - means the cheap money era is over. So don’t lose your dream home over FOMO.

Spot the small differences now in two policies able to shore up your Plan B, because it might make the world of difference if you become incapacitated or just a bit unable.

26th May, 2023 | Money

Four reasons financially-savvy contractors find income protection tough to ignore.

22nd May, 2023 | Money

Revealed: the realities that rightly compel limited company directors to take out a tax-efficient RLP.

16th May, 2023 | Successful Contracting

Specialist contractor broker vs bank branch adviser? If you want the best home loan for your circumstances, and limited company, there’s no contest.

4th May, 2023 | Money

Freelancer Financials shares its mortgage borrower wishlist ahead of chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s imminent statement.

Overview to securing a mortgage in joint names, whether you (or they) are inside IR35; a permie, a PSC or an umbrella employee.

28th February, 2023 | Money

Murmurs from inside the BoE indicate that if we’re not at the ‘new normal’ already, we’re not far away from it.

What contractors who want to move this year need to understand about lenders, the economy and the market.

It’s wild; hysterical and panic-inducing – and that’s only the coverage. Fortunately for contractors, the likelihood is just a reversion of the property market to 2021.

With virtually all lenders withdrawing fixed deals amid unprecedented volatility, it’s hard to imagine a better time to use a broker.

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