Barratt brings in hiring freeze as UK housing market slows down
Housebuilder also cuts land purchases, with it forced to scrap proposals for 3,293 plots
Pay in cash – and haggle hard: 15 ways to save money this winter
There are no easy answers to the cost of living crisis. But if you haven’t checked your benefits or changed your lightbulbs, it might still be possible to make life a little more tolerable
Into the Void: the four-storey Barbican shell set to become a £3.5m home
Having bought the space in 2006 for £200,000, a former solicitor aims to sell the one-off 3,097 sq ft brutalist space to developers
Mortgage payers face squeeze in 2023 after UK interest rate rises
Wealthy, older people who own home outright will avoid higher costs and benefit from better return on savings
Average UK house price falls for fourth month in a row, says Halifax
Figure of £281,272 comes as property values drop by 1.5% in December, after 2.4% decline in November
Sales of ‘super-prime country houses’ outside London hit a 15-year high
Rich bankers and lawyers from the capital are using big bonuses to buy Downton Abbey-type mansions
UK house prices fall for fourth month in a row, the longest run since 2008
Annual growth rate cools in December and average price of property drops to £262,068, says Nationwide
York records strongest house price rises in England and Wales
Halifax data shows the cathedral city bucking wider trend of stalling house price growth to shoot up by 23%
‘Groundhog year’: UK disposable incomes to fall by 3.8% in 2023
The Resolution Foundation thinktank forecasts a drop in living standards for a second year as the cost of living crisis deepens
Five charts that show the UK’s economic prospects in 2023
Inflation, faltering GDP and rising unemployment are all on the cards for the country this year
‘It was chaos’: students on being priced out of the rental market
UK students forced to live in neighbouring cities in university accommodation crisis
Experts predict housing market will cool in 2023 as UK enters a recession
The slowdown is expected to intensify with price declines between 5% and 12%
London tops Rightmove searches as pandemic interest in Cornwall fades
Capital most popular location by some distance after south-west led for several months last year
Easy street: these are the most expensive streets in the UK
Central London dominates the list, with only one road outside the capital making it into the top 20
Six big UK banks to start lending on flats with cladding
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander to offer mortgages on medium and high-rise properties from January