Property Rescue Blog

New tax rules regarding Capital Gains Tax will hit higher rate tax payers particularly hard.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported an unexpected fall in the UK industrial output in April. Rather than increasing by 0.4%, which was expected, industrial output fell by 0.4% from March.

Spending related to the World Cup is credited with giving UK retail sales a boost in May.

New restrictions on benefits for expectant mums and new parents are poised to make raising children significantly more expensive.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) reported a significant increase in the collective deficit of the private sector’s final salary pension schemes in the UK. By the end of May, the collective deficit of the 7,300 PPF-monitored schemes expanded to £42 billion, which is a huge increase over the £2 billion deficit reported in April.

The UK experienced rather cold weather during the months of December and January, which brought the issue of high energy bills back to our attention.

Figures reported by the Land Registry show that house prices in Wales and England continue to steadily increase.

According to the most recent monthly survey conducted by the Nationwide Building Society, house prices are still on the rise.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced that an additional 2,600 UK jobs will be cut over the course of the next year.

For the second year in a row, university graduates are facing lower expected graduate salaries.