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 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:21:22 +0100 http://www.typepad.com/ http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/is-now-the-time-to-get-out-of-the-property-market.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/is-now-the-time-to-get-out-of-the-property-market.html If you haven’t done so already, with house prices staging a mild revival is now the time to bail out of the property market? Statistics put house prices down about 20% from the August 2007 peak (Halifax). But speak to... Author: Simon Lambert Mortgages & house prices Team: This is Money ANM Blog Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:15:35 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/will-tesco-buy-northern-rock-and-why-would-it-want-to.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/07/will-tesco-buy-northern-rock-and-why-would-it-want-to.html Will Tesco buy Northern Rock? A report in today’s Times claims the supermarket giant has expressed ‘provisional interest in buying the bank’. There's nothing really in the report backing up the story, so essentially it's a rumour, although a Treasury... Author: Simon Lambert City & business Current Affairs Mortgages & house prices Saving & banking Team: This is Money ANM Blog Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:23:17 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/deflationwatch-part-iii-what-is-getting-cheaper.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/deflationwatch-part-iii-what-is-getting-cheaper.html Prices are falling right? After all May's figures showed the third successive month of RPI deflation, but for some reason everything still seems to be managing to get more expensive. So here is Deflationwatch part III: an ongoing look at... Author: Simon Lambert Current Affairs Economy Team: This is Money ANM Blog Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:04:07 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/how-much-of-a-propertys-asking-price-should-you-pay.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/how-much-of-a-propertys-asking-price-should-you-pay.html If you’re buying a property, how low below the asking price should you expect to pay? This is the ever present dilemma facing any potential homebuyer and despite an almost two-year long property slump, the asking prices people put their... Author: Simon Lambert Money savers Mortgages & house prices Team: This is Money ANM Blog Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:05:30 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/why-lower-house-prices-and-higher-interest-rates-would-be-better.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/06/why-lower-house-prices-and-higher-interest-rates-would-be-better.html If it came to the crunch which one would you choose: higher interest rates and lower house prices, or vice versa? I know which way I’d cast my vote: I’ll take lower and more stable house prices with a higher... Author: Simon Lambert Economy Mortgages & house prices Team: This is Money ANM Blog Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:52:30 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/you-shouldnt-drive-to-tottenham-the-statistics-prove-it.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/you-shouldnt-drive-to-tottenham-the-statistics-prove-it.html More than 80% of Britons use credit cards to clean car windows, but three quarters have never cut up a pizza with their flexible friend. Clearly the above is not true. But it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that... Author: Simon Lambert Funny money Insurance Team: This is Money ANM Blog Tue, 26 May 2009 18:35:08 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/deflation-we-could-do-with-some-real-falling-prices.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/deflation-we-could-do-with-some-real-falling-prices.html The latest inflation figures have prompted yet more warnings of deflation from economists. The Retail Prices Index' fall to -1.2% has delivered inevitable deflation headlines. Except of course, this isn't strictly deflation. Deflation would be if the official measure of... Author: Simon Lambert Economy Money savers Mortgages & house prices Team: This is Money ANM Blog Tue, 19 May 2009 14:06:22 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/student-loan-interest-rate-decision-is-a-disgrace.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/student-loan-interest-rate-decision-is-a-disgrace.html The Government's decision not to pay interest on student loans is disgraceful. Albeit, in the long line of current scandals it's not a massive one, but this is far more invidious than claiming you forgot you paid off the mortgage... Author: Simon Lambert Consumer rage Current Affairs Economy Saving & banking Team: This is Money ANM Blog Thu, 14 May 2009 14:17:37 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/will-the-recession-be-wshaped.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/will-the-recession-be-wshaped.html Welcome to the W-shaped recession. After some hefty debate last year over whether the recession would be U, V, or even L-shaped, a new contender is ready to gain more attention. The beauty of it is that it currently manages... Author: Simon Lambert City & business Economy Team: This is Money ANM Blog Tue, 12 May 2009 17:59:41 +0100 http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/when-will-interest-rates-rise-again.html http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/this_is_money_blog/2009/05/when-will-interest-rates-rise-again.html It’s a fairly safe bet that interest rates will be kept on hold at 0.5% by the Bank of England tomorrow – but when will the base rate rise again? This is the million dollar question for those trying to... Author: Simon Lambert City & business Economy Investing Mortgages & house prices Saving & banking Team: This is Money ANM Blog Wed, 06 May 2009 18:06:38 +0100