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The housing market has defied expectations over the past year, fuelled by people’s desire to move to properties with gardens and space to work from home, and boosted by stamp duty holidays across the UK. But the frenzy means many would-be buyers have been left behind. For them, despite the launch of a government guarantee …

Homebuyers are scrambling for houses in Britain’s latest property hotspot – on the tip of the Wirral peninsula. The Merseyside town of Wallasey has over the past year recorded a bigger rise in asking prices than any town or city in Britain, according to the listings site Rightmove. And it’s family homes with gardens – …

Clare Austin* and family live in a privately rented house in Hertfordshire. She and her husband could afford the monthly rent of £1,700 when they were both working but when he lost his job a couple of years ago, they fell behind with their payments. He got another job and things were almost back on …

A business manager has described watching helplessly as fraudsters emptied his current account, even as he desperately tried to get through to someone at his bank to stop the theft. Alerted by a text from Lloyds bank last month warning him that a £4,100 payment was leaving his current account, Adrian Giles* leapt into action …

Quarantine and coronavirus testing requirements for people arriving in England once foreign holidays are permitted from 17 May will be based on a traffic light system, with destinations placed on green, amber and red lists. Now the green list countries have been announced, here is what do you need to know before you book a …