Piers Wehner

When the European Central Bank finally moves its 2600 staff into its new headquarters this month, not all of them will have a desk.

Mortgage lenders are flooding the market with fixed-rate products as home owners look to switch ahead of expected rate rises.

Hallowe’en has fallen on a ‘pay-weekend’ this year, prompting club and bar operators to expect a bumper trade from cobweb-clad punters.

Footballer Sol Campbell has spoken out about his decision to abandon Labour over the proposed Mansion Tax.

A High Court judge who needed to be told the rules of cricket has now blocked a development near an East Hampshire cricket ground.

The UK’s biggest network of estate agencies, Countrywide, has reported a 22% increase in income in its third quarter to £188.4m.

A record of 33 homes worth more than £1m were sold each day in the first six months of the year, according to a survey by Lloyds Bank.

A surge in profits at Harrods, the Knightsbridge department store has led to it earning its Qatari owners a £118m dividend.

Spirit has granted its suitor, Green King, an extra five days to thrash out the details of its £723m takeover.

Prime minister David Cameron has said that he would want interest rates to stay at rock bottom forever, saying it helped families to buy homes.

Office rents have hit a new high in the City of London, after a floor of the Leadenhall Building – known as the Cheesegrater – let at nearly £85 psf.

The annual growth in house prices has slowed to 9% this month, down from 9.4% in September, according to figures from Nationwide.