House prices rose at their fastest rate for almost three years in June, as Government stimulus schemes improved confidence in the market and a property shortage fuelled rising prices.
Councils in England will be given a budget to freeze their council tax for the next two years, Chancellor George Osborne announced today in his Spending Review.
Letting agents' fees are now "truly out of control" and tenants are having to go without food or turn off heating to cover their costs, a housing and homelessness charity has warned.
An extra 4,000 people are poised to buy new homes following the launch of the Government's Help to Buy mortgage scheme two months ago, house builders say.
Customer dissatisfaction with financial firms has reached record levels with half a million new complaints dealt with in the last year, the Financial Ombudsman Service said today.