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  • Persimmon: Housebuilder posts profit as property market ‘recovers’

    Property

    Housebuilder Persimmon toasted rising profit and house completions, buoyed by a property market which it says is recovering from last year’s Budget slowdown. Persimmon notched rising profit before tax in the year to December 2025, up 11 per cent to £397m, and built 11,905 homes, up 12 per cent from the year before. Investors rewarded [...]

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  • Barclays joins run of mortgage rate hikes in blow to borrowers

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    Barclays has become the latest in a flurry of mortgage lenders to hike their rates amid mounting fears the Bank of England will keep the base interest rates higher for longer following the war in the Middle East. The blue-chip banking giant has slapped a 0.1 per cent increase on rates on a selection of [...]

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  • Small house building firms in ‘existential crisis’ as sales rates plummet

    Property

    Falling sales are pushing small and medium-sized (SME) house builders into an “existential crisis” that could threaten the government’s house building ambitions.  SME house builders have seen average sales drop by 41 per cent between 2021 and 2025, according to a report by estate agents Savills for the Land, Planning and Development Federation (LPDF). The [...]

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  • House prices rise as property market builds momentum

    March 6, 2026

    House prices grew 1.3 per cent year on year to February, in the strongest growth in four months, as the property market continues its steady start to the year.  Prices rose by 0.3 per cent between January and February, with the average UK property price at a new high of £301,151, according to Halifax’s house [...]

  • ‘And so it begins’ – Mortgage lenders kick rates back up amid Middle East crisis

    March 5, 2026

    A number of mortgage lenders are kicking the their rates back up, with more expected to follow, as market conditions remain volatile due to the unfolding crisis in the Middle East. HSBC UK has said it will increase some of its mortgage rates for first-time buyers, movers and re-mortgagers and the UK’s largest building society, [...]

  • The £100k tax cliff edge is punishing ambition

    March 4, 2026

    The £100,000 income cliff edge has become one of the most punitive and distortionary features of the UK tax landscape, says Michael Healy The government has made clear that it wants to boost economic growth, strengthen UK capital markets, and encourage greater participation in investing. These are ambitions we strongly support. But one part of [...]

  • Profit slides as Beazley eyes Bermuda amid Zurich £8bn takeover

    March 4, 2026

    One of the UK’s biggest listed insurance firms suffered a slide in profit as the company prepares to be acquired by Swiss giant Zurich. FTSE 100 insurer Beazley posted pre-tax profit of $1.14bn (£870m) for the year to end December 2025, a fall of around a fifth compared to the previous year amid a softening [...]

  • Mortgage approvals fall to two-year low 

    March 2, 2026

    Mortgage approvals slumped to a two-year low in January as buyers remain cautious following months of damaging uncertainty around the November Budget.  Net mortgage approvals for house purchases dropped to 60,000 in January, six per cent below the 64,100 six-month average, according to new Bank of England figures.  The property market is still suffering from [...]

  • House price growth holds steady in February

    March 2, 2026

    House prices held steady in the year to February and rose slightly from last month, according to Nationwide’s house price index.  The average UK house price last month was £273,176, up 0.3 per cent from January, and annual price growth was unchanged at one per cent.  A continued improvement in affordability helped drive first-time buyers [...]

  • Forget student loans, the national debt is the real mortgage on the young

    February 27, 2026

    Debating student loan interest distracts from the far larger and permanent national debt and its interest payments, which place a compounding, long-term financial liability on younger taxpayers who already face rising costs and a weakening worker-to-retiree ratio, says Martin Beck The campaign to cut student loan interest rates is welcome. A system where balances rise [...]

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