Buy-to-let arrears fall

UK Finance’s latest buy-to-let mortgage market Update for Q1 2026 showed that there were 58,272 new buy-to-let loans advanced in the UK, worth £10.8 billion. This was up 3.26 per cent by number compared with the same quarter in the previous year, 7.02 per cent by value. The average gross buy-to-let rental yield for the UK…

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Families face summer holiday childcare bill of £1,145 per child

Holiday childcare costs across Great Britain have risen by 5% in the last year, leaving working parents facing an average bill of £191 per child per week – or £1,145 for the six-week summer holiday according to Coram Family and Childcare research. The survey finds that holiday childcare continues to cost almost three times as much as after-school childcare during…

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