Money Talks: beat the burglars, and could selfies replace online passwords?

Ensuring your windows have locks is one way to keep your property safe from burglars. Photograph: Clare Dickson / Rex Features

Hello and welcome to this week’s Money Talks – a roundup of the week’s biggest stories and some things you may have missed.

Money news

£4bn raid on pension savings likely, says former minister

Warning as homebuyers stretch to get on and up the housing ladder

Warm Homes Discount delays leave vulnerable people in the cold

Pout and pay: could selfies replace online passwords?

Buyer of south London basement will have to dig deep

Pensions overhaul ‘could trigger raft of mis-selling claims’

Thousands miss out on free childcare

Feature

Safe and sound: how to beat the burglars and protect your property

In pictures

Snooping around: homes for shoppers

This gated development is across the road from Westfield shopping centre and within a walk of Notting Hill market in west London. Photograph: Redrow

In the spotlight

Stamp duty changes which take effect in April are apparently boosting mortgage lending to investors, Britain’s high street banks have said. Our mortgage expert has advice for a couple who are unsure what the new higher tax rate means for them.

Buyers will pay additional stamp duty of three percentage points on any property bought as a buy to let or as a second home from April. Photograph: moodboard/Corbis

Consumer champions

Fined for parking at Aldi when I wasn’t there

There was I thinking Nationwide actually values my custom!

Bank transfer offered no cushion after furniture company ceased trading

Money deals

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Download a free MarketViews guide covering where to invest your Isa in 2016, including 10 steps to success here.