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News in Review Wednesday 3rd December 2025

This week’s News in Review highlights some of the main announcements from Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ second Budget and weakening retail sentiment ..... Read More

News in Review Wednesday 15th October 2025

Latest housing data from Halifax shows a slowdown in activity, but affordability is improving. IFS has a warning for the Chancellor ahead of the Budget. Trump hails “the historic dawn of a new Middle East”.

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Residential Property Review August 2025

Bank Rate was cut to 4% in August. UK house price growth slows, but homes are still 20% more valuable since 2020. Northern regions outperform while London lags. Read more in our Residential Property Review.

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News in Review Wednesday 23rd April 2025

A global trade war would create renewed inflation, increasing pressure on British families

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Market Update 7th April 2025

Last week, President Trump took to the podium to make his much anticipated ‘Liberation Day’ global trade announcement. He unveiled a raft of expensive new tariffs on almost all imported goods to the US, set to affect nearly every country in the world, with the intention of increasing homegrown production and addressing what the President […]

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Your Window on Wealth Spring 2025

Read our latest newsletter – Your Window on Wealth – including positioning your portfolio in a protectionist word, HNWIs facing gaps in retirement and succession planning, start the new tax year off with a robust plan and take a look at global megatrends reshaping our world

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News in Review Wednesday 5th March 2025

A trade deal between the UK and US could be agreed “very quickly,” President Donald Trump said at a White House press conference with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

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Election Update 12th July 2024

One week on, as the dust settles on Labour’s landslide victory, the new government have wasted no time getting to work.

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Election Update 5th July 2024

Following weeks of intense campaigning, the electorate has delivered its verdict. As widely expected, the Labour Party has secured a historic landslide victory, soaring past the magic 326 seat mark in the early hours of Friday morning.

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Election Update 28th June 2024

With less than a week until polling day next Thursday, the last few days of campaigning have become more heated as all parties put their cases to the electorate.

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Election Update 21st June 2024

The election campaign clock keeps ticking with less than two weeks until polling day. All candidates have been beating the campaign trail and over 600,000 people registered to vote on deadline day.

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Election Update 14th June 2024

This week, the election campaign grew in policy substance, as the major parties published manifestos detailing their visions for the UK, and leaders were interviewed and visited key constituencies. As expected, tax plans were a major talking point for all parties.

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Election Update 7th June 2024

The second full week of the campaign began with Monday’s YouGov poll projecting the Labour Party was on course to win 422 seats, securing the biggest parliamentary majority since 1924, when Stanley Baldwin was elected. The poll predicted the Conservative Party would win 140 seats, the Liberal Democrats 48 seats and the Scottish National Party […]

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News in Review Wednesday 30th August 2023

Early S&P Global/CIPS UK Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey data for August has highlighted that weaker household spending and increasing interest rates contributed towards a decline in demand for both services and goods during the month.

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News in Review Wednesday 19th July 2023

Official figures released last week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that UK gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1% in May. Analysts pointed to the additional bank holiday for the coronation as a key factor in this decline.

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Residential Property Review April 2023

  • Residential market update
  • More million-plus sales in 2022
  • Race for less space?
  • House prices headline s.....
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Residential Property Review October 2021

  • Supply still lagging demand
  • Rents surge nationwide
  • Transport links key for house hunters
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Economic Review June 2021

  • MPC maintains monetary stance
  • Record jump in employee numbers
  • Markets
  • Government borrowing chasm narro.....
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