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Homes cost extra £13,000

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Homes cost extra £13,000 - The cost of average home has increased by £35 every day over past 12 months - leaving buyers searching for an extra £13,000 2m struggle with council tax - The council tax system was under fire after study found more two million households struggling keep up with payments



Homes cost extra £13,000  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
The cost of the average home has increased by £35 every day over the past 12 months - leaving buyers searching for an extra £13,000
2m struggle with council tax  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
The council tax system was under fire after a study found more than two million households struggling to keep up with their payments
Market report: Thursday 12:30  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Rising commodity prices and Wall Street coming within a whisker of its record high overnight gave a boost to share prices in London today
NatWest Three were in on deceit: Fastow  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
The NatWest three extradited to the US to face Enron-related fraud charges knew that they were involved in a complex series of deceits
Honda to create UK jobs  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Japanese car giant Honda will today announce a major expansion of a UK plant, creating hundreds of jobs, it was reported today
Ikea profits slide on image problem  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Ikea, the home furnishings retailer everyone appears to love to hate, has seen its profits in the UK plunge by a third
HMV records growing sales  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Music store and bookshop owner HMV today said price cuts and internet sales had helped it to improve performance
Beware bank account upgrades  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Many thousands of bank customers are being 'upgraded' to fee-paying current accounts without their permission, according to new research
Brits are Europe's debt-kings  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Britons are responsible for a third of all unsecured debt in Western Europe, and on average borrow twice as much as their Continental cousins
Barclays lands new Premiership deal  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Barclays Bank has extended its sponsorship of football's Premier League with a three-year deal worth £65.8m
Dial-a-geek to beat techno-rage  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
BT has become the latest firm to launch a broadband home installation service in a bid to tap into the number of customers suffering techno-rage
UK banks 'in on Enron deals'  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Crooked former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow, who was jailed for six years last night, has said that major UK banks were aware of his financial schemes
Standard Life feels flotation pain  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Standard Life's 1.5m private shareholders are counting the cost as the assurer put aside an extra £100m to cover lost premiums and pension subs
Hybrids could finish landlines  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
A generation of personal 'phones for life' is poised to sweep away the traditional landline, as they work as both mobiles and home-phones
Broadband 'fourplay' arrives  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Cable giant NTL:Telewest has launched its long-awaited fourplay package - bundling broadband, home phone, television and mobile services into one £40 deal
Sainsbury's introduces green orange bags  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
A supermarket is replacing its white carrier bags with orange versions made from 33% recycled material, it announced today
Pump price war as crude slumps  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
A price war erupted at petrol pumps and energy shares tumbled after the cost of oil plunged to a seven-month low
Record level of young insolvents  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
Record numbers of people under 30 are going bust after racking up massive debts on credit cards
Shelling out for takeovers  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
The battle for Australia's Hardman Resources, in which Tullow Oil is the first to put cash on the table, could be symptomatic of bigger deals to come
40 years of campaigns  [09/28/2006 01:17 PM]
For four decades Daily Mail's Money Mail team have been fighting for a fair deal for families trying to make the most of their finances