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Rics: House sales at a 30-year low - Property sales are at the lowest level for 30 years but should improve over the next three months, according to the latest Rics report



Rics: House sales at a 30-year low  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Property sales are at the lowest level for 30 years but should improve over the next three months, according to the latest Rics report
Credit card rates creep up despite Bank cuts  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Banks have increased interest rates for millions of credit cardholders even though the cost of borrowing is at a 50-year low
Stock market report: Tuesday latest  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
12.00:A big seller sent shares of Lloyds TSB tumbling 9p to 186.2p within minutes of the start of trading this morning
Homes can be snatched after two missed payments  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Mortgage lenders can take over a borrower's home if they fall just two payments behind, the High Court has ruled
Mandelson offers a lifeline to Post Offices  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Lord Mandelson has thrown a lifeline for post offices threatened with closure, arguing they could become significant players in financial services
FSA fines AWD Chase De Vere £1.12m for mis-selling  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
The FSA has fined advisers AWD Chase de Vere Wealth Management £1.12m for mis-selling in its pension transfer, pension annuity and income withdrawal business
Brown up in polls over economic crisis  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Labour has bounced back to within six points of the Tories as voters turn to Gordon Brown to deal with the looming recession
Prices 'will plunge on the High Street'  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Families struggling in the run-up to Christmas can expect to see plunging prices on the High Street, according to lastest official figures
'I paid next door's water bill for 16 years'  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
A woman is suing a water company after finding out she had been paying her neighbour's bills for 16 years
Councillors in Iceland to recover lost millions  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Barnet council officials are flying to Iceland in an attempt to recover £30m tied up in the country's failed banks
School fees: Crunch spurs rise in defaults  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Private schools are having to throw out increasing numbers of pupils as parents default on fees, according to a leading finance expert
China export growth still slowing down  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Vodafone in warning of a £1bn shortfall  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile phone company, has said its revenues would come in £1bn under target this year as the recession bites
£100bn black hole in private pensions  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
The credit crunch could prove to be the 'extinction event' for gold-plated pensions, experts warned yesterday
High Street gloom as sales slump 2.2%  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
The dramatic scale of the slump in spending in High Street shops is revealed in figures published today
HSBC 'won't be bullied' into passing on cuts  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan today said he would not be bullied by Government into immediately passing interest rate cuts on to mortgage customers
Santander moves to shore up finances  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Shocking evidence of cracks in the global banking sector emerged as a trio of financial powerhouses moved to shore up their finances
Cameron promises small firms tax holiday  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
David Cameron and Gordon Brown locked horns over tax cuts today as the Tories unveiled a £2.6bn recession-busting plan to create up to 350,000 new jobs
The early 75% sales on the High Street  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Prices are being cut by up to 75% this weekend as retailers prepare for a 'bargain basement' Christmas
Nationwide: Mortgage market to fall by 80%  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Nationwide says it expects the mortgage market will slump to just a fifth of its value last year and house prices will continue to fall in 2009
Risky business from the HBOS dealbreakers  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Some banks avoid the fray  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Unhealthy side to the debt saga  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]
Midas share tips: Dogs of Footsie crash out  [11/11/2008 01:17 PM]