UK borrowing tipped to have jumped to £23bn in March but Hunt and Sunak are on course to hit OBR forecasts April 23, 2023 Britain is tipped to have borrowed nearly £23bn last month to help pay for capping energy bills at £2,500, according to City analysts’ consensus forecast. Fresh numbers out from the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday are expected to show the gap between what the government generates in revenue from taxes and spends on public [...]
Zoopla: Coronavirus could send UK house prices plunging March 26, 2020 UK house prices could plunge dramatically as the coronavirus outbreak causes demand to dry up, Zoopla has warned. The spread of Covid-19 is already having a big effect on the market, causing a 40 per cent drop in demand for housing in the seven days to 22 March, according to data from property website Zoopla. [...]
Are the super-rich running out of road? September 4, 2024 As more western governments look at ways to increase taxes for the ultra-rich, Ali Lyon asks whether it will work
The Debate: Should London make its public transport free? January 10, 2024 Montpellier in southern France recently followed announced free public transport passes for residents. The sunny city’s suave electric trams and buses have been gratuit as of 21 December (it doesn’t have a metro).
Businesses exposed to deepening energy crisis warns Cornwall Insight July 3, 2022 The "cost of living crisis" could escalate to a "cost of doing business" crisis this winter, warned energy specialist Cornwall Insight.
UK house prices: Growth slows again, falling to a six-year low in September as London sees prices plummet October 19, 2018 UK house price growth slowed again in September, down to its lowest annual rate in six and a half years at 0.9 per cent. The south east became the first region to report negative annual growth, with house prices dropping a modest 0.1 per cent year on year, according to Your Move’s House Price Index. [...]
Consumer-focused firms weather sharp declines as inflation sparks investor jitters April 11, 2022 Shares in European consumer-focused firms have taken a battering in the last quarter as soaring inflation and low growth have caused investors to shun the stocks.
UK house prices: Brexit drags back September growth October 1, 2019 Annual he owth in UK house prices fell back to 0.2 per cent in September, according to Nationwide data released today. The drop in growth came as September’s house valuations slipped 0.2 per cent against August’s. That left the average UK house price at £215,352 last month, a drop from £216,096 in August. Annual growth [...]
September house prices show ‘last of stamp duty sizzle’ November 17, 2021 UK house prices leapt in the year to September in the run up to the final stamp duty holiday deadline, government figures show. HMRC’s latest house price index shows that house prices climbed 2.5 per cent in September and 11.8 per cent annually. The average price of a property in the UK was £269,945, hitting [...]
Redrow increases profit as order book hits £1.5bn February 10, 2022 Redrow, one of the UK’s largest house builders, has reported a 16.6 per cent increase in profit as the order book hit £1.5bn. In the 27 weeks to 2 January, the FTSE-250 group registered a record revenue of £1.052bn, with operating margins returning to normalised levels of around 19.5 per cent, one year ahead of [...]