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The credit crunch could herald the return of council housing after decades in the political wilderness. Tory housing minister Harold Macmillan saw 354,000 new homes built in 1954 alone - an emerging building project in east...
Further signs of weakness emerged from the property market today after Government data showed prices fell by 0.7% between May and June. The month-on-month fall compared to a rise of 1.6% between May and June last year. Today's...
Last Modified: 12 Aug 2008 Source: PA News Government confusion over the future of stamp duty risks damaging signs of returning confidence to the housing market, chartered surveyors have warned. The Royal Institution of...
As the financial news headlines have been reporting for many months now many homeowners across the UK have been struggling over recent months. The past two years saw interest rates rise by 1.25% in total, with five base rate...
Alistair Darling rejected a third request for an immediate meeting with estate agents as tension grew over suggestions to lift stamp duty. Whitehall sources told The Times yesterday that there was increasing irritation within...
A rather terrifying letter from HM Revenue & Customs has just dropped through my letter box. Which means that ever since the words ‘credit crunch’ started to be bandied about every five seconds on the news, I’ve been rather...
