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  The fourth quarter of 2017 saw 1,200 buy-to-let mortgage holders with arrears of more than 10% - an increase by a fifth compared to the same quarter in 2016. The number of buy-to-let mortgage...

Local councils across the country are planning on increasing council tax in a bid to keep themselves in the red. 95% of local authorities are set to increase taxes and 93% will be raising the fees for...

Halifax reported that house prices in the UK dropped in January as the strain on households due to inflation continued. Figures show that prices dropped 0.8% in December and 0.6% in January which is...

Lloyds has become the first UK bank to announce strict new regulations meaning all exchanges involving the purchase of virtual currencies on its credit cards have been blacklisted. The Lloyds group,...

The January 31st deadline for submitting your Income Tax Self-Assessment online has recently passed. However, this year nearly 750,000 people missed the and are likely to face some hefty financial...

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) announced several changes to the driving test  in the UK (excluding Northern Ireland) in December last year, focusing on the use of technology, and are...

Figures released by Ofgem, the Energy watchdog, estimate that 9 million UK households, or about 35% of the national market, haven’t switched gas or electricity suppliers since 2012 and as a result...

House prices increased by 3.2% in January, up from a 2.6% rise in December according to  Nationwide’s latest house price index. The building society said that it found the figures surprising...

The number of mortgages that banks lent out to customers fell to its lowest point in five years during December 2017, according to the banking lobby group UK finance. According to the figures there...

The number of individuals in the UK declaring insolvency has increased for the second year running, with a return to levels – 99,196 people – not seen since the post-2008 recession.  Rates rose by...