The average rent for a one-bed property in the UK has topped the £1,000 mark, meaning it costs two thirds of average disposable income to pay. The Landbay Rental Index revealed the cost of such a property was £1,010 in…
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‘Death is a fact of life’, or so the cliche goes. However in true British fashion, it remains one of the subjects we feel least comfortable talking about. This means that those left behind are having to make important organisational…
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Britain’s housing market is ‘settling down’ after the number of property sales dropped sharply following the Brexit vote, with house prices set to rise steadily for the next five years. Research published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)…
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Academy schools across England have been urged to place financial education on their curriculums, even though they are not legally obliged to do so. The call has come from Yorkshire Building Society, amid concerns that pupils at such schools could…
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Aside from your home, the most expensive and most researched purchase you’ll probably ever make will be your car. However, as any motorist knows, merely acquiring the vehicle is the easy part; it’s keeping it on the road where the…
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Leigh-on-Sea in Essex has been named the happiest place to live in the UK in an annual survey. Almost 24,000 people from 206 UK areas were asked to rank 12 happiness factors as part of Rightmove’s Happy at Home Index,…
Debt worries are never far from the minds of most UK adults, even after going to bed, new research suggests.
Of the 2,000 people surveyed by the Debt Advisory Centre at the start of July, 71 per cent of them worry about their debt all or most of the time and f…
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Congrats, you’ve done it, you’ve graduated from university. Nobody can ever take that shiny new degree away from you. It’s going to be your first-class ticket to the job of your dreams, eventually, hopefully.
After all the celebrating is out …
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