Consumer Borrowing Slows 5th January 2018. British households’ borrowing binge has fallen back to its slowest pace in two years, indicating the peak of the boom may now be in the past. Unsecured borrowing grew by 9.1 percent in the

03/01/2018 Ticket touts to be banned from using ‘bots’ to bulk buy (UK) New legislation will ban ticket touts from using automated software to dodge security measures and buy more tickets than events organisers allow so they can sell them

03/01/2018 New measures to improve standards in the private rented sector (E) Landlords renting properties in England occupied by 5 or more people from 2 or more separate households (‘houses in multiple occupation’) will need to be licensed and anyone

03/01/2018 Investigating the abuse of CCJs by rogue companies (E, W) Concerns that rogue companies are damaging consumers’ credit ratings by deliberately sending money claims to incorrect addresses so County Court Judgments (CCJs) are issued by default has resulted in

22/12/2017 Cutting out ‘unfair and abusive’ leasehold practices (E) A ban on the sale of new-build leasehold houses, unless there are exceptional circumstances such as the houses being built on land with special restrictions or having shared services, heads a