An elderly widower whose wife died after an accident on holiday has been forced to wait seven months before finally receiving a £20,000 payout due to him from his travel insurer – with The Mail on Sunday’s help. Peter Hicks, 83, and his wife Jean, 80, who had difficulty walking, were on a cruise in [...]
Less than half of areas saw house prices rise in May, as further signs emerged that tougher new mortgage rules are putting the squeeze on borrowers and cooling the housing market. House prices continued to rise across the UK in May but there has been a slight slowdown in the rate of inflation compared to [...]
Some 7,313 homes have been sold so far under the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme, the Treasury says. The figures are the first comprehensive measure of the scheme since it was launched late last year. The numbers from the Treasury also show that 80% of the properties sold went to first-time buyers. The majority [...]
Gross lending in Northern Ireland for house purchases increased by 41% to £240m in quarter one year-on-year, statistics from the Council of Mortgage Lenders has shown. Growth in England was slightly behind with a 38% uplift in the value of lending for house purchases worth £21.35bn in quarter one, with lending in Greater London accounting [...]
UK mortgage approvals declined for the third straight month in April to an eight-month low, as lending for property purchases moderated, data from the British Bankers Association showed Tuesday. Mortgage approvals for house purchases fell to 42,173 in April from 45,045 in March. Approvals were below the expected level of 45,100. The latest figure was [...]
Identity fraud has started to hit property owners, with properties being sold to unsuspecting buyers and without the real owners knowing about it. The Daily News in Durban has identified eight instances where properties have been sold, and in some the transfer had gone through the Deeds Office, without the knowledge of the true landowners. [...]
House sales were the strongest since the same period in 2007 Northern Ireland house prices are rising, according to new figures covering the first months of 2014. The Residential Property Price Index records growth of 7% on this time last year. For the time of year, sales - at 4,200 - were their strongest since [...]
Chris McGovern, of pressure group Campaign for Real Education, said: ‘Look, people fall over. This money which has been paid out would be better spent on teaching children. ‘The whole culture of compensation – from staff, parents and children – has made school totally risk averse.’ Conservative MP for Monmouth David Davies added: ‘This does [...]
"This is where they put a rod in, obviously the one back here is where the blade cut across my arm," says April Wheeler, showing how much progress she's made over the last nine months. "Everyday I have to look at that and remember the choices you make and remember that day," she says. It [...]
One way is to lend Google Glass to personal injury clients so that they can communicate with their lawyers via Glass to show how their daily lives are affected by their injury. A law firm in Phoenix, Arizona, is operating a pilot scheme with Google Glass, and is looking for ways of using these communications [...]