http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/ Britain's top financial journalists - from This is Money, the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail - lift the lid on making and saving money. en-GB Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:01:28 +0100 http://www.typepad.com/ http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/house-prices-on-radio-4-moneybox-.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/house-prices-on-radio-4-moneybox-.html With house prices apparently stabilising, I was asked today to debate the issue on Radio 4's Moneybox [ listen here - at 11mins. Or the link just for house prices] with the programme interested in my previous comments about affordability... Author: Andrew Oxlade Mortgages & house prices Team: This is Money ANM Blog Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:18:51 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/retire-at-70-no-chance-our-unfixable-demographic-problem.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/retire-at-70-no-chance-our-unfixable-demographic-problem.html This demograhic problem is really coming home to roost. It's a pet subject of mine... - Demographic investments - I'm loving the returns (Apr 2009) - How baby boomers will extend the financial crisis (Jan 2009) - Demographics make emerging... Author: Andrew Oxlade Economy Pensions & retirement Team: This is Money ANM Blog Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:51:04 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/my-buytolet-barometer-swings-from-plus-to-minus.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/my-buytolet-barometer-swings-from-plus-to-minus.html In April 2009, I launched the This is Money buy-to-let barometer, a very slightly more sophisticated follow--up to my dismal house price predictor which, in June 2007, pointed to house price falls. How the buy-to-let barometer works We're lucky enough... Author: Andrew Oxlade Mortgages & house prices Team: This is Money ANM Blog Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:32:53 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/fixed-mortgage-rates-to-fall-dont-bet-on-it.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/fixed-mortgage-rates-to-fall-dont-bet-on-it.html A lunch meeting gave me an interesting insight into the direction of fixed-rate mortgage rates yesterday. In early to mid-June, our interest rates round-up warned that City traders were taking an outside punt that the Bank of England may raise... Author: Andrew Oxlade Mortgages & house prices Team: This is Money ANM Blog Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:54:38 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/career-booster-offer-to-work-for-nothing.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/career-booster-offer-to-work-for-nothing.html How not offering to work for free can have a harmful effect on your job security... The world's first stock market-listed voluntary organisation, otherwise known as the airline British Airways, asked its staff to work a month for free in... Author: Andrew Oxlade City & business Team: This is Money ANM Blog Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:09:45 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/robert-shiller-house-prices-to-fall.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/robert-shiller-house-prices-to-fall.html Robert Shiller (pictured) is a renowned US economist. Not only is he professor of economics and finance at Yale, he has also written respected books on economics and investor psychology - and his repeat-sales home price indices, developed originally with... Author: Andrew Oxlade Economy Mortgages & house prices Team: This is Money ANM Blog Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:48:02 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/the-5p-cost-of-a-razor-brand-ripoff-part-iii.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/the-5p-cost-of-a-razor-brand-ripoff-part-iii.html Another brand 'rip-off' is named and shamed today. The razor industry apparently makes replacement blades for as little as 5p and sells them for up to £2.43 a piece. Presumably, the gap is a bit of profit, and a lot... Author: Andrew Oxlade Consumer rage Money savers Team: This is Money ANM Blog Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:01:20 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/bank-bonuses.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/bank-bonuses.html Today the Treasury Select Committee warns that the bank bonus culture is still 'flourishing'. The industry could argue that the bankers who have skillfully protected their banks from the need for direct taxpayer bailouts should be richly rewarded. I don't... Author: Andrew Oxlade City & business Consumer rage Economy ANM Blog Fri, 15 May 2009 11:22:04 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/andreas-panayiotou-the-shrewd-buytolet-seller-buys-again.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/andreas-panayiotou-the-shrewd-buytolet-seller-buys-again.html Andreas Panayiotou, who off-loaded apartments worth millions in 2006 ahead of the property crash, has called the bottom of the market and is buying again. Panayiotou (right), a boxer-turned-property-magnate, was on the BBC2's painfully stretched-out Property Watch programme on Monday... Author: Andrew Oxlade Mortgages & house prices Team: This is Money ANM Blog Wed, 13 May 2009 13:31:39 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/a-recent-study-suggested-as-many-as-5-of-1-coins-are-fakes---thats-one-in-every-20--royal-mint-figures-previously-suggest.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/a-recent-study-suggested-as-many-as-5-of-1-coins-are-fakes---thats-one-in-every-20--royal-mint-figures-previously-suggest.html A recent study suggested as many as 5% of £1 coins are fakes - that's one in every 20. Royal Mint figures previously suggested it was just 2%. So there's a fair chance you're handling a fake £1 coin every... Author: Andrew Oxlade Saving & banking Team: This is Money ANM Blog Fri, 08 May 2009 15:32:04 +0100