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Martin Steven Lewis OBE (born 9 May 1972 in Withington, Manchester, Lancashire) is an English journalist, television presenter and author.

He also created the website MoneySavingExpert.com.

Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales.

It is a tax on domestic property which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the Community Charge (popularly known as the Poll Tax).

Each property is assigned one of eight bands (A to H) based on property value, and the tax is set as a fixed amount for each band.

Some property is exempt from the tax, some people are exempt from the tax, while some get a discount.

An interest rate, is the amount of interest due per period, as a proportion of the amount lent, deposited or borrowed (called the principal sum).

The total interest on an amount lent or borrowed depends on the principal sum, the interest rate, the compounding frequency, and the length of time over which it is lent, deposited or borrowed.

MoneySavingExpert.com is a British consumer finance information and discussion website founded by financial journalist Martin Lewis in February 2003 with the aim of providing information and journalistic articles enabling people to save money.

In September 2012 it was bought by the moneysupermarket.com group for up to £87M.

in a deal which saw Lewis agree to remain as editor in chief before taking on the role of executive chairman in 2015.

A mortgage loan, also referred to as a mortgage, is used either by purchasers of real property to raise funds to buy real estate; or alternatively by existing property owners to raise funds for any purpose, while putting a lien on the property being mortgaged.

The loan is "secured" on the borrower's property.

This means that a legal mechanism is put in place which allows the lender to take possession and sell the secured property ("foreclosure" or "repossession") to pay off the loan in the event that the borrower defaults on the loan or otherwise fails to abide by its terms.

The word mortgage is derived from a "Law French" term used by English lawyers in the Middle Ages meaning "death pledge", and refers to the pledge ending (dying) when either the obligation is fulfilled or the property is taken through foreclosure.