The cost of insuring a car has gone up by almost £100 on average over the course of 2016.

New analysis that looked at 873,000 customer quotes generated through MoneySuperMarket in November found that annual car insurance premiums averaged at £597, 12 per cent more than they were at th…

Contractors face more obstacles than permanent employees when applying for a mortgage, according to a new survey of 250 self-employed workers.

The research, commissioned by Yorkshire Building Society-owned Accord Mortgages, found that one in five (22 per cent) self-employed workers believe the ir…

House prices in the UK are on the rise again, according to new figures from Halifax.

The average price of a home in Britain between September and November was £218,002 – a whopping six per cent higher than in the same three months a year earlier.

This marked the first increase in the ann…

Christmas is the most expensive time of the year for pretty much everyone, with the obligation to buy gifts and serve up a festive feast designed to keep bellies stuffed way past Boxing Day.

But it needn’t be a bunker-buster on your bank balance and there are many ways consumers can minimis…

Gas and electricity providers owe British homeowners more than £1 billion, according to new research.

Two-thirds of homeowners in the UK are in credit with their energy supplier, which works out at an overpayment of £86.60 each on average, so says a survey of 1,283 randomly selected h…

Philip Hammond recently delivered his first – and oddly enough, last – Autumn Statement as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

That’s because, in a strangely meta twist, Mr Hammond abolished the Autumn Statement right in the middle of the Autumn Statement.

Instead, from 2017, we’ll ha…

Given the ticket price of a five-year old family hatchback and a shiny new model, fresh off the production line, it’d be fair to guess that the older car would be cheaper overall.

However, that’s not so, according to MoneySupermarket, which has analysed the full cost of running new ca…