More than 2.5 million people have seen house sales fall through in the past five years with time-wasting buyers or sellers among the biggest reasons for the failure of the deal, according to new research by Spring Move Limited.
And people in the North East of England and the North West are among the worst affected.  […]

Just a fortnight is left for self assessment taxpayers to file their returns, and avoid a £100 penalty for missing the 31 January deadline.
Almost 10 million self assessment tax returns were issued in 2004/05 - but last year almost a million taxpayers were late filing their returns. HM Revenue & Customs is encouraging people to […]

A year after the Government launched its Child Trust Fund vouchers and almost one million vouchers have yet to be invested by parents on behalf of their children.
Nationwide Building Society is trying to encourage parents to invest their child’s voucher sooner rather than later in order to gain as much benefit from the investment […]

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1 in 10 UK singletons are out of control of their finances according to research by IFA Promotion, which promotes the use of independent financial advice. And it says that over half of UK adults (24 million people) refuse to cut back on spending to save more for retirement.
A significant 41% of singletons have already […]

House prices rose 2.5% from year ago levels in November 2005, according to figures from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
While overall house price inflation has slowed to less than the growth rate of wages, in the case of first-time buyer (FTB) properties, prices in November were still rising at 5.2% per annum, which […]

Many households could be exceeding their contents insurance after Christmas as new purchases push them over their contents insurance limit, according to Halifax. While many insurance providers offer an increase in their contents insurance allowance for a nominal period before and after Christmas, these extensions often run out on or before the 15th January.
Halifax […]

Property owned by pensioners has topped the £1 trillion mark after average values rose by nearly £50 billion in 2005, according to retirement housing group, Economic Lifestyle.
 
Its figures say that the average retired homeowner has seen the price of their home rise by £3,360 during the past three months, up to £174,495.
Of the UK’s […]