Crowood Financial Solutions
Swindon, United Kingdom
(13)
Swindon, United Kingdom
(13)
Richard Hall, owner of Crowood Financial Solutions, has over 15 years’ experience in the financial services industry, and provides advice across a wide range of services including pensions, investments, mortgages, protection and equity release.
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13 customer reviews
Claire - Home Gottemaker
Brilliant! Richard Hall from Crowood Financial Solutions arranged remortgaging our property and adding myself to the mortgage. Richard is extremely knowledgeable and understood our rather complicated needs perfectly. He was also happy to discuss various options at different stages of the process. We got a fantastic rate and we were so impressed with Richards service, we did our Buy to Let property through him a few weeks later. 5 stars from me! More...
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Chris Horgan
Richard was a god send when it came to our Life cover! We didn't realise we had under covered with our previous provider and Richard helped identify the need and gave all the options in a clear and concise process that made the decision so easy; even when we had a slight issue with the provider on our first DD he was quick to resolve the issue directly with no hassle. More...
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Karl Paul
Fantastic financial advice and service from, Richard at Crowood Financial Solutions. Both on a personal pension and investment basis and also commercial for our company pension requirements. If you need sound guidance then I can highly recommend, Richard. More...
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Arend Berend Jan Gottemaker
I don't often write reviews but I was so impressed with Rich Hall at Crowood Financial Solutions, that I thought he should be acknowledged for his fantastic customer service. We had a really complicated re mortgage on our house and our buy to let mortgage and Richard seemed to resolve any issues we faced. It really took the stress away for my wife and I. Thanks again Rich, we really appreciate it. More...
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Andre Gottemaker
I don't often write reviews but I was so impressed with Rich Hall at Crowood Financial Solutions, that I thought he should be acknowledged for his fantastic customer service. We had a really complicated re mortgage on our house and our buy to let mortgage and Richard seemed to resolve any issues we faced. It really took the stress away for my wife and I. Thanks again Rich, we really appreciate it. More...
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Claire Richards Gottemaker
Absolutely brilliant! Richard helped us not only re mortgage but re mortgage for a higher amount as we needed some extra money for an extension and add myself to the mortgage. Richard has a great knowledge of the market and got us a really good rate. He was brilliant at keeping on top of the application and responded to all my queries, no matter how minor. I would highly recommend Richard from Crowood Financial Services. More...
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Noel Paul
Very pleased with the service and advice from Richard.
Richard reviewed and advised on my pensions.
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Collette Pope
I can't recommend Richard and his team enough. Quick, efficient and personable. Thank you.
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Karl Paul
Very pleased with the service by Crowood Financial Solutions and in particular the advice by Richard.
Richard has recently reviewed and advised on my personal pension and ISA, as well as setting in place our corporate pension scheme.
Highly recommended!
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Tony Stevens
Friendly, relaxed and above all non-pushy, non-sales'y guy. Sorted out several bits for my company including the pension scheme, and even my business life insurance (which was a bit of a convoluted mess! ) - no fuss, just calm and friendly help. Can't recommend highly enough. Will be back next year for my mortgage! More...
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Lauren Webb
As a first time buyer I did not know what to expect applying for my first mortgage. Richard was really helpful, always responded promptly to emails and helped find the best mortgage deal to suit my requirements. Would definitely recommend!
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Noel Paul
Very pleased with the service and advice from Richard.
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Karl Paul
Very pleased with the service by Crowood Financial Solutions and in particular the advice by Richard.
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Auto Enrollment Advice
The auto-enrolment process is highly complex. Firms will need to implement a scheme by a particular date, called their “staging date”, which is determined by their payroll size in 2012. To do this, you need to assess which employees will need to be enrolled in the scheme and this is based on employees’ ages, wages and opt in or opt out choices.
Equity Release Advice
Equity release can be a financial lifeline for older people who find themselves in need of cash, often living on small incomes despite living in properties worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Mortgages
Mortgages are one of the largest single transactions in most people’s lives. Buying a property can be a stressful and time consuming experience; nowadays the financing of a mortgage is a case of finding and selecting the most suitable mortgage, rather than simply accepting a lender’s offer.
Banks, building societies and smaller niche lenders compete for your business, all offering a variety of interest rate deals, associated fees and other enhancements to attract borrowers.
The two main methods of paying a mortgage are repayment (capital and interest) and interest-only. It is also sometimes possible to set this up using a combination of the two. A description of these methods is provided below.
Pensions
Pensions are, of course, designed to enable you to save sufficient money during your working life to provide an income stream for you to live comfortably after you have retired.
There are many different ‘tools’ used to save for retirement and the taxation and investment elements of pensions can appear baffling. We specialise in explaining, recommending and monitoring pensions for you. Below are the most common sources of pension income to provide for your retirement.
Life Assurance, Critical Illness & Protection Advice
Whilst insuring ourselves against an undesirable event such as sickness or even death may not be a pleasant thing to think about, the benefit of being able to set financial issues aside at emotionally difficult times cannot be overlooked.
Savings & Investments Advice
From childhood most of us are told to put away money to save for the future – perhaps for something special; or perhaps to be sure that when we really need something we have the funds to acquire it, without taking on debt. Whether we place your money in a piggy bank, or in a multinational investment house, our aims are broadly the same; to provide for our future needs, and to protect ourselves against unexpected causes of expenditure.
