
As we emerge from a snowy January, the climate is particularly favourable for those seeking a remortgage. Lenders are competing for the business of mortgage holders with significant equity built up in their homes.

As we emerge from a snowy January, the climate is particularly favourable for those seeking a remortgage. Lenders are competing for the business of mortgage holders with significant equity built up in their homes.

Chartered surveyors have confirmed that UK house prices are continuing to rise, as the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) publishes its quarterly UK Housing Market Survey.
An ethical tax designed to raise up to 20 billion euros a year could be the key to funding renewable energy projects in the world’s poorer regions, according to proposals by the French delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next week.
The French concept of a ‘justice-climate’ plan could be funded by a tax on financial transactions, similar to that once proposed by the Nobel prizewinning economist James Tobin.
The government has promised a new personal tax to help the environment, in the week when Copenhagen gears up for its international conference on climate change. The new ‘eco-tax’ would aim to vastly reduce the amount of plastic in circulation, by imposing a charge on the use of plastic carrier bags in shops and supermarkets. Despite [...]
Don’t knock ‘eco gestures’ – on the long journey toward practical solutions on climate change we need to begin with small steps in our daily lives. Starting with small steps by changing attitudes to climate change, we will get there.
House prices will rise slightly in 2009, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has said, reversing an earlier forecast that prices this year could have fallen by up to 15%.
















