When selling your home, it’s crucial to get as much as you can for it. As an award-winning home stager, I’ve seen firsthand how strategic staging can dramatically impact a home’s appeal and sale price. And this doesn’t necessarily mean spending thousands or even hundreds of pounds decorating and renovating. It can be achieved with
There was a passage in Cherie Blair’s memoir, published some 17 years ago, which I find particularly difficult to forget. No, I’m not talking about her gruesome oversharing of the details of Leo’s conception at Balmoral (my apologies… I’m sure there’s a helpline number for anyone still shuddering over that one), but of another particularly
China’s finance ministry has announced the impending issuance of sovereign green bonds in London, which will mark its first overseas sale of such bonds and a concrete step following high-level economic and finance talks earlier this year. The yuan-denominated issuance will be worth up to 6 billion yuan (US$829.75 million) with specific details to be
A POPULAR restaurant chain has announced that it is no longer accepting cash payments in most of its 135 stores. Italian restaurant Zizzi now exclusively accepts card, Apple Pay and Google pay transactions in the majority of stores. 2 Zizzi is no longer accepting cash payments in many storesCredit: Alamy 2 Many businesses in the
BRITAIN’S economic growth fell unexpectedly in the first month of this year. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Gross Domestic Product (GDP) edged down by 0.1% in January. 1 The latest GDP figures show the economy fell by 0.1% in January Economists had forecast gross domestic product (GDP) to rise by 0.1% in the
The money raised at a Tommy Robinson rally in memory of a rioter who killed himself in prison appears never to have reached the bereaved family, reports suggest. Peter Lynch, 61, killed himself in prison at HMP Moorland, Doncaster on October 19 2024. The grandfather was serving a two year and eight month sentence for
Farmers already left outraged by Labour’s inheritance tax grab will be forced to sell their land for less than its potential value. Fields targeted by councils to build new hospitals, schools, and homes would be snapped up through compulsory purchase orders (CPO) under new measures in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. But the greater powers
Gold Is On Fire: Demand Is So High That Dealers Are Importing Gold Bars From Abroad On Commercial Jets Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. If you’ve recently flown from London to the U.S., something very valuable may have been in the cargo hold
By ALESIA FIDDLER Published: 09:39, 7 March 2025 | Updated: 10:16, 7 March 2025 The BBC has axed a popular property series that was designed to take on Netflix‘s Selling Sunset in a huge blow to fans. Reality show Crazy Rich Agents: Selling Dream Homes first aired in 2023 and featured five rookie real estate brokers who
A HIGH street bank with three million customers has issued a major update for anyone with a loan. Metro Bank has agreed the sale of its £584million portfolio of personal loans. 1 The bank has ceased offering unsecured personal loans to new customers back in 2023Credit: Rex The high street bank said the sale of the unsecured