The scramble to beat the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 has added £57,000 onto the price of the average home – up to five times the amount that would have been saved in tax. Since the stamp duty holiday was introduced last July home movers have saved an average of £11,566 … Read more
A lost decade for starved Cash Isa savers after inflation outstrips low interest rates interest By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 26 January 2021 Cash Isas have failed to deliver over the past decade as low rates have left savings to be eaten away … Read more
Sellers have put their homes up for sale to cash in on the stamp duty holiday frenzy that is gripping the nation, new data from a major UK property website shows. Rightmove says sellers in commuter towns in the south east of England have seen the biggest annual rise in new listings since Chancellor Rishi … Read more
The UK’s coronavirus outbreak is one of the fastest escalating epidemics in Europe, official statistics have revealed. 676 people were diagnosed with the virus yesterday, more than in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Austria or Denmark. This was 35 per cent more than the previous day, when there were 407 cases, and meant the … Read more