David Cameron’s rush over Help to Buy: panic move to counter Labour

Larry Elliott: There is real chance that coalition's Help to Buy housing scheme will create another boom-bust in the economy

Help to Buy scheme has been brought forward – here’s how it works

David Cameron has announced stage two of mortgage scheme will be launched within days, three months ahead of schedule

Ed Miliband’s bold new energy policy was little more than a sketch

Nils Pratley on Saturday: It's unrealistic to hope that private firms can be cajoled into making investments where they cannot see a profit

One Hyde Park: a good address, but one doesn’t actually live there

Costing up to £100m, most of the Knightsbridge apartments are sold but unoccupied, distorting London's housing market

Help-to-Buy: George Osborne makes major concession

Heather Stewart: Subsidising high LTV mortgages in boom-bust UK housing market was political masterstroke – but economic madness

What could Mark Carney do to stop Help to Buy house price bubble?

Q&A: How could the Bank of England and the FPC use their new extra powers to try to stop to stop Osborne's Help to Buy policy from inflating house prices?

Five-year mortgage fixes start to rise

Tesco Bank, West Bromwich building society and NatWest are among lenders pulling record-low five-year mortgage deals

Green deal is damp squib as only 12 homes take up energy-saving offer

The government’s much-vaunted energy-saving green deal scheme has been criticised as overly complex and expensive

George Osborne dismisses fears of housing market bubble

Chancellor defends Help to Buy stimulation measures and says Bank of England does not need to calm the market

Soaring house prices spread across UK as surveyors warn of another bubble

Poll shows fastest rise since late 2006 peak, with Rics saying Osborne schemes risk pushing prices to unaffordable levels

How can the Bank of England prick the house price bubble?

Amid fears of another house price boom, we look at what Mark Carney can do if he won't raise interest rates

Homebuyers given a green light – but who will save the savers?

Bank of England decision to tie interest rates to unemployment will continue to punish savers and retirees

What does Mark Carney’s interest rate announcement mean for me?

We look at the implications for mortgages, savings and annuities