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A new report from Lloyds Bank shows that downsizing continues to be a strong driver of property sales, with almost half (45%) of homeowners planning to sell their property in the next three years saying they’d like to downsize...

Claims firms which use information gathered by unsolicited calls and texts or who provide poor quality services will face large fines under law changes announced by the Government...

New CML data on the profile of lending in September and the third quarter of 2013 show: * Total home-owner house purchase lending fell in September, down 14% on August but up year-on-year by 20%...

Households perceived that the value of their homes rose in November for the eighth consecutive month, according to the House Price Sentiment Index (HPSI) from Knight Frank and Markit Economics...

Following recent news from the FPB that business costs are rising 3.5% ahead of inflation, data analysis from Lovetts PLC, the law firm specialising in commercial debt recovery, shows that businesses are also struggling to get back money owed to them by customers...

Chesterton Humberts is forecasting that national house prices will rise by up to 8.2% in 2014, ahead of a predicted 8...

Here Russ Koesterich, BlackRock’s Global Chief Investment Strategist, provides his latest weekly commentary...

The Bank of England’s latest Inflation Report will be closely watched for forecasts of growth, inflation and unemployment used by the Bank to inform their forward guidance policy, according to JP Morgan Asset Management strategists...

Average rents across the UK appear to have stabilised, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index...

The explosion of the demand for rental properties is largely because it has become so difficult to purchase property...

One in ten gas and electricity customers who pay for their energy in advance and have a pre-payment meter are cut off at least once a week because they run out of credit, according to research by Debt Advisory Centre...

As inflation fell to 2.2% in October, its lowest for four years, do investors really understand the effect these past years have had on their savings? Here, BlackRock’s Tony Stenning, Head of UK Retail, gives his view...

Citizens Advice has said fines for claim firms are a step towards protecting consumers but a ban on cold calling by claims management companies would do more to stamp out unsolicited calls...

More than 2000 people have put in offers on homes under the Help to Buy scheme, totalling £365million of new mortgage lending...

Here Henderson EuroTrust provides its Manager Commentary for October... "October was a good month for European markets, in spite of a largely disappointing series of third quarter results...

House prices jumped once again last month as rocketing interest from would-be buyers dwarfed the amount of properties coming onto the market, according to October's RICS Residential Market Survey...

Last year, there was a strong consensus that capital expenditure would contribute to global growth in 2013...

Overuse of investment jargon will ultimately deter investors from making important financial decisions...

Optimism about the business situation rose at the fastest pace since records began in 1988 among small and medium-sized manufacturers, on the back of improving demand and output, according to the CBI’s latest SME Trends Survey...

While auto-enrolment looks to ensure that all employees have a pension scheme in place, only around two-thirds of members in defined contribution schemes with twelve members or more currently have a salary sacrifice scheme available to them...