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Money

  • estate agent for sale signs on a Victorian terraced street

    Housing
    Interest rate cut fuels immediate upturn in UK property market

  • bank branch signs on a UK high street including barclays, lloyds, hsbc and natwest

    Banking
    Race for UK banks to repay £100bn in Covid loans could help savers

    Lenders may look to attract more deposits from savers to raise funds to repay Bank of England pandemic-era loans
  • Clemency Jacques cradles Alex in her arms as she sits on the floor of her living room. Both are smiling.

    Allowance crisis
    Unpaid carer says DWP’s fraud prosecution threat was ‘like blackmail’

  • Norton Motorcycles
    Victims of pension scandal receive £9.4m compensation

  • Travel
    Busy August bank holiday road getaway expected as Britons go ‘day-trip crazy’

  • Have laptop, can travel
    The rise and rise of the commuter student

  • Working holidays
    Young Britons exploited in jobs at Mediterranean party resorts

  • Students
    £100 cash and interest-free overdrafts: how to pick a bank account

  • Council tax
    Ex-Sunak adviser urges Labour to introduce wealth tax on housing

  • ‘Kafkaesque’
    Bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam

  • Ask Philippa
    Jobs make me feel trapped so I never stay. Am I just lazy?

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Expert advice

  • the Blue Light Card

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    Blue Light Card ‘reward’ has now turned into £3,941 loss

  • a yellow embossed wallet featuring the Aviva logo

    Consumer champions
    Car insurance error took cost to more than £2,000

  • Invoice for care home fees.

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    A cheque from Equiniti to pay my late husband’s care home fees got lost in post

  • Opodo's smartphone app

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    Opodo cancelled our ‘confirmed’ flight home from Japan

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Opinion

  • Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones stand in a field with metal detectors in The Detectorists

    Detectorists’ finds rewrite history by unearthing the real story of money

    Torsten Bell
  • Back view of woman teacher, with hands on hips, a blurred view of desks and students in the background

    Ask Philippa
    Jobs make me feel trapped so I never stay. Am I just lazy?

    • A young girl on the beach wearing a swimming top. An adult is applying sunscreen to her back.

      Sunscreen is taxed as a ‘cosmetic’ in the UK. As a skin cancer survivor, I’m appalled

      Jessica Zbinden-Webster
    • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

      Tell us
      Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

    • A housing development in Slough, Berkshire.

      Planning changed Britain for the better in the postwar years – and it can do the same now

      Phineas Harper
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In pictures

  • A mansion on the banks of Windermere.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale next to lakes in England

  • A grand townhouse in Regency Cheltenham overlooking the popular Montpellier Gardens.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale near city parks and gardens

    From a Brighton flat with access to communal gardens to a Glasgow property overlooking a park
  • FHH writer’s retreat Honiton, Devon

    Fantasy house hunt
    Writer retreats for sale in England, Scotland and Wales

    From a 16th-century cottage with an inglenook fireplace to a turf-roofed home in the wilds of the Hebrides
  • A grand townhouse in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Grand townhouses under £1m for sale in England

  • Timber-framed homes nestling in the rugged countryside of the Isle of Harris, Scotland

    Fantasy house hunt
    Eco homes near the sea for sale in Great Britain

  • FHH: sports venues : Wentworth, Surrey (1)

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes to watch sport from in England

  • A high street studio in fashionable Peckham, London.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes under £350,000 for first-time buyers in England

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Resources

  • Calculator

    Stamp duty calculator

  • Family on holiday

    Factsheet: Travel insurance

  • Monopoly houses on a pile of coins

    House prices: what do the different indices show?

  • Buying a house

    Factsheet: Buying a home

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On this site

  • estate agent for sale signs on a Victorian terraced street

    Property
    Interest rate cut fuels immediate upturn in UK property market

  • Jim and Liz Bunce thought they had done the right thing by insulating their loft.

    Mortgages
    ‘They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it’s unmortgageable’

    • Consumer affairs
      Blue Light Card ‘reward’ has now turned into £3,941 loss

    • Pensions
      UK state pension: ‘thousands more’ may have been underpaid

    • Savings
      Race for UK banks to repay £100bn in Covid loans could help savers

    • Scams
      Asic taking down average of 20 scam websites a day

    • Ticket prices
      Ticket touts targeted by UK minister in video full of Taylor Swift puns

    • Scams
      UK motorists warned of fake parking QR codes being used in ‘quishing’ scams

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