18% – Fewer than 1 in 5 financial advisers would invest in a peer-to-peer lending scheme, according to research by Yorkshire BS. 21% – More than 1 in 5 pensioners have gone back to work, or say they intend to return to employment, after reaching state retirement age according to Prudential. 35% – […]
Summer Budget 2015 special 20% – Buy-to-Let tax relief will be gradually reduced to the basic rate of income tax over the four-year period from April 2017. £12bn – The amount Chancellor George Osborne said will be saved through welfare cuts. £10bn – The surplus that the Chancellor is targeting by 2019/20. 18% – The […]
139,500 – The number of first-time buyers in the first 6 months of 2015, according to Halifax. €50bn – The amount Greece needs over the next 3 years to stabilise its finances under existing bailout plans, says the International Monetary Fund. £3.2m – The amount that the FCA has been forced to write off after […]
21% – Proportion of first time buyers who think it is ‘virtually impossible’ to get a mortgage, according to Halifax. £2,340 – The extra amount that being in a relationship costs each year compared to being single, says confused dot com. 7% – Proportion of people who say they are delaying their retirement because of […]
£456,210 – The difference in the average house price between the areas surrounding London-based Arsenal FC and Birmingham-based Aston Villa FC, this year’s FA Cup finalists. £350k – The amount Crystal Specialist Finance has invested in new offices in Tamworth, Staffs. 5m – The number of workers who have pulled a sickie in the past […]
£4,100 – The amount the average home in the 20 areas with the highest unemployment level has grown since 2009, compared with £65,000 in the areas with lowest unemployment, says Lloyds Bank £35m – The amount the Money Advice Service committed to help people in debt, up £4m on the year before. 62% – Nearly […]
65% – Two thirds of online banking activity is carried out using a mobile phone, says Halifax. 69.2% – At the end of 2014, nearly seven in 10 people in the EU were in work, slightly down from the 2008 peak of 70.3%. 94% – Royal London paid out on more than nine in 10 […]
£2Bn – The amount of tax that Labour allowed non-doms to avoid during the previous 13 years in government, the Liberal Democrats claim. 61% – The proportion of Britons who say they do not feel they have hit ‘financial adulthood’ until they have bought a house, says topcashback. 10 minutes – the amount of time […]
£14,000 – The amount by which first time buyers will be short of the average first deposit of £29,218 if they save though the new Help to Buy ISA, according to Fidelity Personal Investing. £1,032 – The amount of extra disposable income a year that the fall in inflation gives to over -55 year olds, […]
THE WEEK IN NUMBERS – 25th March 19% – nearly one-fifth of drivers who have experienced an incident of road rage say it led to a physical confrontation, according to Confused.com. 9 in 10 – Ninety per cent of holidays are cheaper than they were in Easter 2014, says M&S Bank. 8m – Number of […]
Members of the Federation of Small Businesses.