Have we come down too hard on buy-to-let? Plus, Rishi the PM vs Rishi the Chancellor
The tense situation between tenants and landlords is escalating: the former have seen rents spiral but the latter have faced a big jump in costs jump too.Meanwhile regulation has become a bugbear betw...
28 Okt 202253min
Is the UK economy heading for stability or just more trouble?
There's a new Chancellor in town and he means business. Serious business.After Kwasi Kwarteng tried to spread some joy to get growth going with tax cuts for all, Jeremy Hunt and the fun police have st...
21 Okt 202243min
The Wave founder Nick Hounsfield interview: How I built my £27m surfing lake dream from £500 in the bank
If you were asked to name a world-class place to surf, a field near Bristol isn’t the first location that would spring to mind.But this slice of the English countryside is home to The Wave, an artific...
20 Okt 202250min
What you need to know about gilts and why markets freaked out so much it toppled the Chancellor
When gilts hit the headlines it’s a clear sign that trouble has not only been brewing but has been unleashed.Government bond yields only tend to break through into the mainstream when things aren’t go...
14 Okt 202253min
How bad will the mortgage chaos get and will it sink house prices??
Rocketing rates have sent the average two and five-year fixed rate mortgage through the 6 per cent barrier.This is a level that would have been considered unthinkable a year ago, when there were 50 mo...
7 Okt 202252min
Did the UK stage its own mini-financial crisis... and who was responsible?
As markets went haywire and the Bank of England staged a bond market intervention earlier this week, it felt like a mini-financial crisis had been triggered.It has been an incredibly turbulent week fo...
30 Sep 20221h 2min
In brief: Why is the pound falling and why are UK borrowing costs spiking?
In this excerpt from the This is Money podcast, Simon Lambert and Georgie Frost discuss why the mini-Budget has combined with last week's interest rates decision to send the pound tumbling and UK gove...
26 Sep 20224min
What does the tax-cutting mini-Budget mean for you and the UK?
Britain's new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a blistering mini-Budget this week that was anything that small.A wave of tax cuts were unleashed. Some had been heavily trailed, such as spiking the ...
23 Sep 202248min
