The Autumn Statement dominated the top ten this week, with changes to dividend tax allowance, Capital Gains tax, inheritance tax, stamp duty and more confirmed.
The Financial Conduct Authority confirming that it would take action against unauthorised brokers who exploited vulnerable customers and reports that buy-to-let loan sizes have been contracting due to stress rates also piqued readers’ interest.
Experts predict the key changes in next Thursday’s Autumn Statement
Buy-to-let stress rates are ‘out of control’ – Star Letter 11/11/2022
Brokers urge Hunt to ‘stay away’ from mortgage market ahead of Autumn Statement – analysis
Autumn Statement 2022: Dividend tax allowance cut to £1,000
FCA takes action against unauthorised brokers that ‘exploited vulnerable customers’
Autumn Statement 2022: Mini budget stamp duty cut now set to end in 2025
Autumn Statement 2022: Capital Gains Tax exemption cut to hit rental market
Easing labour demand may prompt BoE base rate rethink
Buy-to-let loan sizes fall as stress rates come under pressure – MBT
House prices dip by 1.1 per cent as buyers get cold feet – Rightmove
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.
