Survey

The third annual Focus Quotient survey of ecommerce in financial services has found another step-change in the use of electronic means to write and transact new and existing business.

The average house price in the UK is now past the £150,000 mark as lack of supply continues to push prices higher, says property research and database provider Hometrack.

Higher income earners are just as likely to be found rummaging around car boot sales as acquiring the latest "bling-bling" accessory, research from LloydsTSB suggests.

UK housing market suffered for the second month in a row as prices slipped in February, suggests latest goverment figures.

The price gap between the north and the south of Britain may soon be a thing of the past as the property market has made a leap in the less expensive parts of the country, suggests a survey by Halifax.

People put the rate of interest charged ahead of advice as the most important factor in determining which mortgage to choose, research from the CML suggests.

Regional pay for is starting to catch up with London salaries even though for now average UK wage inflation is running only marginally ahead of RPI, two different surveys suggest

Research by JPMorgan Fleming suggests a third of UK investors never bother to switch out of poorly performing funds, with up to a fifth of those surveyed saying it was because they took a long-term view.

Most UK adults are content with their work-life balance, and are not tying themselves in knots over extracting a few precious extra minutes out of every day, research from Mintel suggests.

The Department of Work and Pensions' Employers' Pension Provision survey 2003 released today paints a distinctly mixed picture of the state of workplace pension provision.