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First-time buyers are keen to jump straight to a house, leading to cheaper apartment prices, experts say.

Poverty among those who are working has risen, but many more people are now in work, research indicates.

Outsourced catering and security staff at the government's business department want the London living wage.

Increasing numbers of people aged between 41 and 60 are being recruited by criminals to launder money.

With a deadline for compensation claims just weeks away, people are being urged to act now.

A waiter in a London branch was asked by the manager to pay £3 towards a £40 unpaid bill.

More than one-in-10 people in the UK now own second homes, buy-to-let and overseas properties.

Hundreds of thousands of staff could soon get their salary as they earn it instead of waiting for payday.

Most participants in the Help to Buy scheme could have got on the housing ladder without help, a report finds.

The "unprecedented" move comes four years after the firm issued a fire safety warning.

The Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into unfair leasehold contracts.

Zero-hours contract workers will get greater security under a new programme called Living Hours.

The department store hopes to renovate and extend homes as well as furnishing them.

Energy bills could rise by £6 a year under EDF plans to build a new nuclear power station at Sizewell.

City watchdog the FCA adds to calls for suspended Woodford Equity Income Fund to waive fees.

A new campaign hopes to make people more aware of the tricks carried out by fraudsters.

Luke Johnson, the bakery chain's former chairman, says he also feared becoming a "pariah" in business.

Chris Hill says he shares clients' "disappointment and frustration" following the suspension of a fund.

The move is the online giant's latest foray into physical shops.

A former City Minister says the regulator was not awake to the problems at the stockpicker's fund.