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Mortgage lender Halifax has published its latest house price index, showing annual price growth at its lowest rate since 2013. The average UK property now costs £219,755, with prices having increased...

The Lifetime ISA launched on Thursday but with only three of the intended providers on board, as major banks and building societies have pulled out for the time being.The three providers who are...

The FCA has proposed a series of measures designed to help credit card users in persistent debt, including forcing providers to waive interest in some cases. The FCA found that credit card providers...

The Royal Mint had officially released the new £1 coin today, describing it as “the most secure coin in the world”. The new 12-sided, bimetallic coin features a design chosen from 6,000 submitted by...

The first inflation report to use the new CPIH measure instead of the CPI shows annual price growth at its highest level since September 2013. The CPIH extends the Consumer Price Index in order to...

The Resolution Foundation has issued a report on the different effects of inflation on different types of UK household, ahead of the first release from the ONS using the new CPIH measure. Consumer...

Chancellor Philip Hammond has gone back on the much-criticised increase to National Insurance Contributions for the self-employed announced in his budget last week.Under the proposals made in the...

The impending and, in some cases, massive rise in probate costs has drawn staunch criticism from backbench MPs including Jacob Rees-Mogg, who condemned what he sees as a “stealth tax”. From May 1st,...

Chancellor Philip Hammond’s first and last Spring budget was relatively uneventful, as promised, with some of the main announcements concerning business rate relief and NICS for the self employed, as...

Chancellor Philip Hammond is set to exercise some caution despite recent positive changes to economic forecasts as his first and last Spring Budget announcement approaches. Reports of positive...