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Where will interest rates be in 2012?

Date: 31 August 2010, Author: Kara Gammell

Home owners must have been scared out of their minds on hearing the warning from a leading economist this week that the Bank of England will be forced to raise the cost of borrowing to 8pc by 2012.

Need for big deposit hits home sales hard

Date: 31 August 2010, Author: Philip Aldrick

The housing market is under threat from a shortage of first-time buyers as they are priced off the property ladder by the large deposits needed, new research shows.

Confident consumers raise hopes of averting double-dip recession

Date: 31 August 2010, Author: Elena Moya

Britain's consumer confidence rose in August for the first time in six months, bolstering the incipient economic recovery and raising hopes that the country will not fall into a double-dip recession, economists said.

Negative equity curse 'will last until 2014'

Date: 31 August 2010, Author: Becky Barrow

Tens of thousands of people who bought a home at the peak of the market will remain trapped in negative equity until 2014, a report warns today.

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