Score the best mortgage deals, plus the facts about the pensions triple lock

Cheap mortgage rates are helping those trying to get on the property ladder for the first time. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images

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

Buy-to-let millionaire who bans ‘coloured’ people faces legal action

Leasehold now the No 1 concern for UK homeowners, study finds

Taylor Wimpey compensation offer is PR con, claim victims of leasehold scandal

One in three tenants borrow money to pay rent, says Shelter

Samsung Pay launches in UK to take on Apple Pay and Google Android Pay

Feature

How to be on the winning side as mortgage war hots up

Over the past five years, the number of deals for buyers with a 5% deposit has gone up by 200, according to Moneyfacts. Photograph: James Boardman/Alamy

In pictures

Moated homes

Your £2.25m will grant you a title as well as a moat with this manor house in Newdigate, Surrey. Photograph: Andy Scott/Hamptons

In the spotlight

Any changes to the pensions triple lock could affect millions. Philip Inman looks at the facts.

The triple lock guarantees a minimum increase in the state pension each year. Photograph: Kirsty O'Connor/PA

Consumer champions

Dear John Lewis, all I want is my £155 refund … refunded

Trying to cancel a Vodafone account hit my chances of getting a mortgage

A mountain to climb to get Everest to resolve our window issue

I cancelled my car insurance in the cooling-off period, but was still charged

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