The Charter commits signatories to supporting the progression of women into senior roles across financial services.

As many as 67% would be classified as such when assessed against official vulnerability criteria.

Planning permission will be required for future short-term lets.

The tests allow firms to identify further training opportunities for staff.

Agreed sales in the first six weeks of 2024 are 16% higher than over the same period last year.

The PR agency has appointed a client services director and senior PR account manager.

The regulator is requesting information from firms about delivery of their ongoing advice services and the Consumer Duty.

High inflation, weaknesses in the labour market, low productivity growth and adverse weather conditions all weighed on activity.

On a monthly basis prices have shown signs of positivity with a 0.1% increase.

Housing market resilience means that the total value is still £1.585 trillion higher than pre-pandemic.