Bridget OConnell
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High street hots up in the sunshine
Retail sales bounced back to a nine-month high after a lacklustre start to the year.
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Latte sales a bit too skinny for Whitbread
Shares of the FTSE 100 leisure group jumped by 134p to £40.27 after reassurances that it would still hit full-year expectations.
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Crown Estate mulls industrial investment as return to Treasury hits £2.7bn in the last decade
Property company confirms it is launching a co-working operation.
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John Lewis Partnership plans Waitrose closures as it warns profits will be ‘close to zero’
Co-op has swooped in to buy four of the shops.
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House prices rise at slowest for five years, but fall in London
‘Subdued economy’ and strained household budgets blamed for slowdown.
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MORNING NEWS: Carpet, hummus and millennials
Round-up of today’s top property stories with quick links to the nationals.
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Millennials favour shares and bitcoin over home ownership
Young people regard buying a house as high risk, survey reveals.
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Hummus Brothers becomes latest casual dining chain to call in administrators
High street a ‘very difficult place to operate in at this time’, company says.
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High prices push down mortgage approvals
UK Finance, the trade association for banks and building societies, warned that there was still a stand-off between buyers and sellers.
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Biggest risk in raising rates is being too fast, says Haskel
Jonathan Haskel replaces Ian McCafferty from September as an external member of the monetary policy committee.
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Online estate agent ‘misleads for 11th time in three years’
Advertising watchdog tells Purplebricks that it misled customers on three issues surrounding an advertisement on its website.
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UK Asset Resolution bad bank to sell assets over the next three years
UK Asset Resolution believes that it can offload its remaining £12bn of loans from Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock, which were nationalised in 2008.