Barratt Developments – Feeling the Market Slowdown
Barratt Developments, the country’s largest housebuilder and sector bellwether, issued a largely unsurprising set of full-year results. Rate rises throughout the year have ...
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Four Weeks Until Decision Day on Interest Rates & Signs are the Economy is Cooling Fast
It’s still four weeks until Bank of England policymakers decide on whether to increase the cost of borrowing again and the economy is ...
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Property Developer Crest Nicholson Posts Profit Warning
Housebuilders are on the slide after fresh data showed that August was a washout for the housing market and Crest Nicholson posted a ...
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Inflation Appears Finally to Have Taken a Big Step Downwards
Inflation appears finally to have taken a big step downwards, which will come as a big sigh of relief amid cost-of-living pain, but ...
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Worries About Deeper Cracks Appearing in Chinese Property Sector
Worries about deeper cracks appearing in the Chinese property sector kept the FTSE 100 on a losing streak in early trade, as concerns ...
UK Staycation Boom Looks to Be Over
The post-pandemic staycation boom looks to be over, according to employment agency Reed. They report that the surge in jobs in the UK’s ...
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Taylor Wimpey Reports a Building Slowdown
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has followed recent trends and reported a 26% drop in completions and 21% fall in revenue. This comes as average ...
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UK Inflationary Tide Turns Faster Sending Sterling Lower, While Housebuilders, Banks and Retailers Make Gains
The inflationary tide is turning faster than expected and although consumers and companies may still struggle amid the wave of higher prices, they ...
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Disproportionate Pressure on Lower Earners Paying Rent or Mortgages
After a long stretch of unusually high vacancies, a super-tight jobs market, and a ramping up of wages there are already signs that ...
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UK Faces Biggest Inflation Problem Among the G7 Group of Nations
There are fresh concerns about the global economy powering down as data from China’s service sector underlines how tepid the post-pandemic recovery has ...
