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Josh Kirby

United Kingdom

Senior Money Writer at The Telegraph

Senior Money Writer at The Telegraph

Cover money, economics, property, investing at Telegraph, previously The Times. Recovering Arsenal fan. ✉️ [email protected]

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  • 3 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Josh Kirby

    By being listed on the stock exchange, the bond also offers itself up to scrutiny by the market, which can signal its collective opinion via its price. If the price of the bond falls, for example, holders may be alerted to concerns over Belong's financial health and could have the opportunity to exit, albeit at a probable loss. Nonetheless, retail bonds are far from risk-free.

  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Josh Kirby

    HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) filings show average property income declared came to £16,700 in the 2022-23 financial year, the latest for which data is available, down 10.8pc since 2018 in real terms. "The kind of fall [in the number of rental properties available] supports our long-held view that government policy is dissuading investment and driving landlords to look elsewhere for returns," said Chris Norris, chief policy officer at the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA).

  • 1 week ago | msn.com | Josh Kirby

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Josh Kirby

    London flat owners are in trouble. Not only has the average price of the city's apartments stagnated over the past nine years, according to Zoopla, many blocks have been marred by cladding scandals and a wider realisation about the perils of leasehold and uncapped service charges.

  • 2 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Josh Kirby

    I’d always assumed that as soon as I had scraped enough cash together to put a deposit down on a home, I would waste no time in getting on the property ladder. After all, that is what everyone does – or at least, everybody used to, because it was affordable and plain common sense. A typical first home cost under £50,000 in the 1980s, with the average first-time buyer aged 28 and equipped with a deposit of less than £3,000, according to research carried out by developer Keepmoat Homes.

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Josh Kirby @joshkirbywrites
19 May 25

RT @moving_charlie: Some seriously good advice in this excellent @Telegraph article by @joshkirbywrites 😎 https://t.co/ePWfH6Yiyk

Josh Kirby
Josh Kirby @joshkirbywrites
28 Oct 24

RT @AndrewKersley: EXCL: Labour MP Jas Athwal is the landlord of a children's home where kids have repeatedly gone missing and risked explo…

Josh Kirby
Josh Kirby @joshkirbywrites
29 Aug 24

Ranted about Trainline ripping us all off when fares are already soaring - and which apps to switch to for @Telegraph https://t.co/Ug1gRywuJV