UK housing market ‘bounces back’ with biggest monthly rise in 16 years 

UK house prices have hit an all-time high following a post-lockdown boom, with the average home now worth £224,123.  House-buyers have shrugged off continued uncertainty in the economy and social distancing with August seeing a 2% rise in prices, the biggest monthly jump since February 2004. Prices are now 3.7% higher than they were last … Read more

Pound makes biggest monthly gain against dollar since 2009

Pound clocks up its biggest monthly gain against dollar for more than a decade By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:57 BST, 31 July 2020 | Updated: 22:16 BST, 31 July 2020 The pound has clocked up its biggest monthly gain against the dollar for more than a decade.  Sterling jumped as high … Read more

Santander ups monthly Lite fee and cuts cashback on phone and internet bills

Santander doubles the account fee for its Lite current account customers and slashes cashback perk for phone, internet and TV bills In October Santander’s cashback for 123 and 123 Lite accounts will change The monthly fee for the 123 Lite account will double from £1 to £2  Santander says changes are the result of the … Read more

Up to 10,000 care home residents and staff will get monthly Covid-19 tests

Up to 10,000 care home residents and staff in England will get monthly coronavirus tests, the government announced today. Health chiefs have launched another surveillance scheme in the hope of tracking how Covid-19 has spread through nursing homes around the country. Care minister Helen Whately – who has come under fire for appearing to blame … Read more

Future’s $1K monthly child support offer to child’s mother Eliza Reign Seraphin is rejected

Future’s $1K monthly child support offer to child’s mother Eliza Reign Seraphin is rejected… as they share daughter Reign, one Her lawyer said his proposal was so he could say he paid something  Future and Seraphin were involved between 2016 and 2018  Forbes estimated his income at $19.5m last year  Atlanta native is father to … Read more

Halifax says property prices fell 0.2% monthly in May 2020

Property prices have fallen for the third month in a row in May as coronavirus stalled activity in the market, a housing report shows. However, the decline has been modest, with just a 0.2 per cent monthly downturn in values, according to the Halifax index. The fall took the average house price in Britain to … Read more

UK house prices suffer biggest monthly decline in 11 YEARS as lockdown wipes £4,000 off values

House prices have suffered their biggest monthly decline in 11 years as coronavirus lockdown measures wiped £4,000 off the value of the average property. The average cost of a home in May fell by 1.7 per cent month-on-month, marking the sharpest decline since the financial crisis, the report from Nationwide said. Asking prices plummeted from … Read more

Mobile app Bits says it can boost your credit score for a monthly fee

An app called Bits is aimed at those with a limited credit history and is designed to boost an Experian score through a monthly fee  It is often considered something of a catch-22 that in order to make yourself eligible for credit you must first take out credit. There are often stories about ‘mortgage invisibles’, … Read more

County Durham two-bed home costs £175 monthly rent but locals warn ‘you get what you pay for’

Britain’s cheapest house? ‘Spacious’ two-bed terraced home in County Durham costs just £175 a month to rent but locals warn ‘you get what you pay for’ 41 Fifth Street in the former mining village Horden is just £175 to rent a month But locals have warned many houses in the area have ‘gone to rack … Read more

Katie Price agrees to taking monthly drug and alcohol tests

Katie Price has been taking monthly drug tests to ‘build trust’ with her ex-husbands Peter Andre and Kieran Hayler, with whom she shares four children.  The model, 41, has been candid about her substance abuse after spending time in The Priory rehab facility and despite recent claims that she is planning a boozy birthday, it … Read more