UK housing market’s post-lockdown bounce ‘might run out of steam’

Latest monthly snapshot shows rise in buyers and homes for sale but prices expected to fall

Mass unemployment feared despite Rishi Sunak’s ‘plan for jobs’

Economic experts, unions and Labour sound warning after summer statement

‘There are too many uncertainties’: reactions to the summer statement

From workers on furlough to house buyers, how Rishi Sunak’s changes are affecting people

Stamp duty holiday may revive housing market, say experts

Summer statement raises hopes for flurry of fresh buyers entering property sector

Summer statement: the UK’s Covid-19 economic crisis in five key charts

Ahead of Rishi Sunak’s statement we look at public finances, economic growth, jobs, retail and the housing market

How Rishi Sunak could kickstart UK’s post-lockdown economy

Chancellor expected to announce comprehensive tax and spending package

UK house prices fell for fourth month in a row, says Halifax

Figures cover first full month English estate agents were open after coronavirus closure

UK construction sector rebounds amid plan for stamp duty holiday

Housebuilders increase activity but job cuts in the industry likely to be ahead

Redrow shifts its housebuilding focus away from London

Developer warns pandemic will hit profits as it gears up for working-from-home market

UK home loans fall 90% since start of Covid-19 crisis

Figures drop to lowest rate since at least the early 1990s, says Bank of England

From wrecked cars to catwalk: the fashion hothouse born in a row of lock-ups

It’s had Huguenot weavers, Jewish traders and Bangladeshi tailors. But east London is not the clothing powerhouse it was. Could a £6m startup built from garages in Poplar see it sashaying back?

Yorkshire building society relaunches 90% mortgages for first-time buyers

The lender had suspended such home loans earlier this month after unprecedented demand

Buying your first home just got (even) harder

With Nationwide withdrawing its 95% mortgage, first-time buyers now need rich, generous parents

Financial inequality: the ethnicity gap in pay, wealth and property

Data shows that people of colour are worse off than white counterparts and black households face the biggest deficit

Ministers extend ban on evicting high street firms until autumn

Code of practice also set up to aid landlord negotiations amid lockdown fallout