Anne Ashworth

Stat of the day from @AskNationwide The average 🏠price is 0.5% higher than a year ago at £273,566, as a result of rising mortgage rates and geopolitical angst. Will #Budget tax rises make banks less likely to lend to those households that want to move home? Let us hope not 💷🏡

Spending on AI. America's biggest ever splurge. But will these trillions yield returns? wsj.com/economy/the-ai-build…

Stat of the day from @bankofengland Mortgage approvals fell to 53,400 last month, down from 54,900 in August .The Budget did not deliver any stamp duty breaks. But maybe the government isn't interested in the economic benefit that could flow from a busier property market?💷🏠

Successive governments have subcontracted the need to provide social housing to the private rented sector. If more landlords quit thanks to this tax rise, reducing supply and driving up rents for struggling households, will this government step in to supply more social homes?

Is the extra taxation on rental income a message to investors that they should move out of property and into stocks and shares? If so, a cut to the stamp duty on shares would have been a useful nudge #Budget2026 #Budget

The #Budget documents tell us that the £4.7 bn Your First Home scheme will help around 70,000 households step onto the ladder and support the delivery of an estimated 20,000 new homes. That major manifesto pledge of 1.5m homes by 2029 still seems undeliverable 🏠🏡💷

Let's remember that we are actually paying more tax, thanks to frozen income tax thresholds as @angharadcarrick reports thisismoney.co.uk/money/tax/… via @ThisIsMoney

Stat of the day The Budget has raised the rates of income tax paid by landlords. "From 2027 to 2028, the property basic rate will be 24%, the property higher rate will be 44%, and the property additional rate will be 49%." Higher rents on the way? 🏡🏠💷

'Hope starts with a home' , says the chancellor. May the hopes that this raises for his Your First Home scheme not be dashed... #budget2026

The Paris riots are the latest roadblock on luxury's road to recovery. Can these giants of bling pick themselves up, dust themselves down and start all over again? 👜💄⌚️⏱️🧥 thisismoney.co.uk/money/inve… via @ThisIsMoney

My @London_Magazine November issue column. The pic? The dining room at One Palace Green, designed by William Morris and restored by Redd

ICYMI Financial Mail on Sunday. The Budget. Barclays -cheapest bank in the world - and the new hunkering down... 💷🛋🏧

Stats of the day from @AnthropicAI which next month will join @Nasdaq with a $2 trillion valuation. A year ago the @claudeai company was worth $ 183bn. A 335-page 240,000 word prospectus shows revenues for the first six months were $ 16.3bn. Yet it is still making losses💻📱

After more riots in France, investors are asking: will the damage done to the Paris stores of the Big Luxury will derail the sector’s turnaround? Or is this the time to back @LVMH @Kering @Hermes_Paris and the rest? mol.im/a/16233189 via dailym.ai/android 💄👜🍷⌚️👗

Another key piece of UK plc up for sale? This from @PatrickTooher Barclays on bid alert as it's dubbed 'the cheapest bank in the world' thisismoney.co.uk/money/mark…