The housing market became inaccessible for many during the first lockdown last year. Since last summer, however, the numbers of house sales and prices have risen. The latest Nationwide survey shows: house prices rose by 10.9 per cent in the year to May, the fastest pace in seven years. The number of transactions reached a record high of 183,000 in March, and this is four times more than 42,000 in April 2020.
Let us look first upon the long-term credit ratings of the UK largest banks, plus those for the most prominent building society - Nationwide BS, and Santander bank, which acquired Bradford & Bingley, Abbey and Alliance & Leicester...
A global pandemic created lots of opportunities for online game developers, fashion retailers, and many technology businesses, as well as delivery services that made our lives a lot easier. Growing online demand supported the rise of unicorns: startups worth at least $1 billion.
