Bridget O’Connell

City bets Bank will increase borrowing costs in May

Bargain Booze, Wine Rack and Carpetright scramble to avert collapse.

Berkeley, run by veteran builder Tony Pidgley, is understood to have held a preliminary conversation with CapCo about the west London scheme in the past six weeks.

The average price of a home increased by 1.5% this month, the largest March rise since 2007, with Wales, the northwest and the East and West Midlands all recording record…

The budget hotel operator has introduced 990 super rooms across 20 hotels since May.

£5bn approach by French rival threatens to scupper merger with Intu.

Stock at lowest level in over a decade as Swedish retailer points to slow start to year.

The Birmingham Bullring owner’s £3.4bn deal for Intu’s “mixed bag of capital intensive in-town centres” raised eyebrows in December.

The FTSE 250 construction firm has sought to put clear blue water between itself and collapsed peer Carillion after reporting rising profits and a healthy order book.

‘We anticipate a tempering of the strong transaction volumes of recent times in some markets,’ said CEO Jeremy Helsby.

Persimmon’s new chairman will have a salary almost 27% higher than his predecessor’s, reflecting the scale of the task he faces to rebuild the housebuilder’s relationship with its shareholders after…