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Residential property transactions in March 2025 were 104% higher than March 2024 and 62% higher than February 2024. For the year ending 31 March 2025, housing transactions totalled 1.223m, the highest since 2015/2016, except during the pandemic (2021/22).
30 Apr 2025
The House of Lords’ first committee debate on the Employment Rights Bill took place yesterday, with guaranteed hours contracts and penalties for shift cancellations on the agenda.
30 Apr 2025
As the UK government publishes draft legislation on the regulation of crypto assets, leading audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK says this should bring greater clarity and stability to the financial services market.
30 Apr 2025
Today’s FCA complaints data shows an overall decrease of 4.3% in financial services complaints overall, with a total 1.78m complaints.
29 Apr 2025
New figures show the total reported amount lost to fraud reached £2.3bn in 2024, according to a freedom of information request by RSM UK to Action Fraud.
28 Apr 2025
Today’s personal insolvency statistics show a continuing quarter-on-quarter decline in number of individuals entering a personal insolvency procedure.
25 Apr 2025
Today’s company insolvency statistics shows that retail trade insolvencies in February fell 18% from the previous month (170) and down 20% year-on-year from 174 in February 2024.
25 Apr 2025
ONS retail sales rose 0.4% in March, driven by a 3.7% boost in clothing and footwear and a 2.4% rise in non-food and garden stores.
25 Apr 2025
Today’s company insolvency statistics show accommodation and food services insolvencies were down 11% from 3,829 in the 12 months to February 2024 to 3,405 in the 12 months to February 2025.
25 Apr 2025
Rising inflation, tariffs uncertainty and incoming rises to employment costs are creating the perfect storm for the UK’s construction industry.
25 Apr 2025