DOES THE BUDGET SIGNAL AN END TO AUSTERITY? Philip Hammond used his Autumn Budget Statement to declare:“the era of austerity is finally coming to an end”. However, while the Chancellor did certainly loosen the purse strings, his bold pronouncement may be a little premature. Mr Hammond’s budget speech delivered on 29 October was designed to […]
Autumn Budget October 2018 Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered a Budget which he declared “shows the British people that their hard work is paying off”. Mr Hammond was under intense pressure to loosen the purse strings. He did announce several new cash injections, while suggesting that “the era of austerity is finally […]
Property demand continues to slip lower The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) ‘UK Residential Market Survey’, concludes that demand for property slipped lower for a second successive month in September. They attribute this fall in demand to a combination of factors, including a lack of stock, the interest rate rise, economic uncertainty and […]
