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Nationwide Building Society has reported that house prices rose by 0.7% in March balancing out the loss of 0.8% reported in February. However, the housing market has had a sluggish start to the year with a rise of 1.6% in the last quarter compared to 1.8% in the previous 3 months and mortgage applications not rising from the dip seen at the start of the year
March 30th, 2010
After much speculation Alistair Darling has delivered the final budget before the General Election and possibly the last one of his career as Chancellor.
The speech certainly struck a ‘wait and see’ tone and was highly political with only a few major announcements, those that were made contained little detail which will hopefully become clearer at a later date
March 24th, 2010
Only last week the Bank of England said that they believed inflation would stay higher than their target of 2% for some time to come, this may still be true but latest official figures indicate that at least one measure of inflation has decreased over the past month
March 23rd, 2010
As we draw to the end of a long winter we thought it would be worth highlighting the developments and improvements we are making to our website in the Spring.
Although the UK is slowly emerging from recession there are still many challenges facing savers and investors, whether it be the recent rise in inflation, low savings rates
March 22nd, 2010
