National Australia Bank forecasts plunges of 10 to 15 per cent in house and apartment prices because of coronavirus. Sydney and Melbourne weren't the only cities expected to be hit.

Bestselling author Harry Dent, who predicted the US real estate bubble before the GFC, said Australian house prices would halve as coronavirus caused a depression.

SQM Research chief executive Louis Christopher fears COVID-19 shutdowns and a halt in immigration will cause Sydney and Melbourne house prices to plunge by almost a third by 2021.

Just in time for next month's new 65 plate, Honda has announced prices for its funky new third-generation Jazz, which goes on sale from £13,495.

Cocaine dealers have tripled the price of their product since lockdown started in the UK, leaving many addicts desperate to kick the habit and quickly 'become hooked' again (pictured, stock photo).

In a table of the top 20 most popular package holiday searches made in April, the Maldives is in the No2 slot, followed by Las Vegas, Tenerife, Orlando and New York, in sixth place.

Adelaide is the home of the cheapest fuel with average unleaded prices now at 90.9 cents a litre, the lowest since 2012. In parts of Sydney, unleaded is selling for just 87.9 cents a litre.

Petrol prices have plunged to a 20-year-low thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Motorists paid 11 cents less for fuel per litre in the March at an average cost of $1.38 a litre.

Peter Khoury from the NRMA said rapidly dropping oil prices had seen petrol companies drop their prices in some places but they were still not on passing on all the savings.

Petrol prices continue to hit new lows right across Australia as coronavirus weighs down global oil prices.

Melbourne has suffered a bigger hit to house prices than any other capital city during the first full month of the coronavirus lockdowns, new real estate data from CoreLogic showed.

House prices in Hartlepool, Redcar & Cleveland and Blackpool are lower than they were ten years ago, new analysis shows.

House price inflation was up by 1.4% annually last month despite December typically being one of the slowest in the property market, figures from Nationwide Building Society show.

House prices in Britain are a much-talked about subject - and a borderline obsession for some. But after a rollercoaster ride in the past decade, what will happen next?

Halifax's house price index showed the average property climbed £9,136 last year to £238,963, but the bank said that it only expected 'modest' rises in the year ahead.

The average price of newly-listed homes for sale jumped 2.3 per cent to £306,810 in a month, as the traditional New Year bounce combined with post-election confidence.

The crash will be driven by the rental sector as the amount tenants can afford to pay plummets due to wage cuts and unemployment. Yorkshire and East Anglia look like being the hardest hit.

House price inflation slowed from 1.5 per cent in January to 1.1 per cent in February, the Office for National Statistics and Land Registry index reported

Nationwide warned the outlook for the market remains 'highly uncertain', while Lloyds' worst case prediction is a 30% fall over two years.

The typical home value was £240,384 in March, according to the Halifax index - meaning prices were at a standstill last month. It remains to been if they hold-up during the coronavirus outbreak.

Property values were down by 0.6% in April compared to March, the biggest fall since March 2018, according to the latest data from Halifax.

The price of oil has collapsed from more than £40 at the beginning of March to just £24 a barrel last week, leading to heavy falls in the wholesale prices of petrol and diesel.

On Monday evening, the value of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil, or Texas Light Sweet, declined to an unprecedented MINUS $40.32. It was the blackest of days for black gold.

Just as inflation hit a surprise six-month high of 1.8% last week, National Savings & Investments joined the big banks in slashing its savings rates and cutting prizes on its Premium Bonds. 

Liberum's central estimate is based on the assumption that house prices will have a 'soft landing' and fall by 7 per cent in real terms.

The best time to book flights for Christmas is 13 weeks in advance - the last week of September - as travellers will get the best price for both flights and accommodation, according to Skyscanner.

Travellers could find themselves a European bargain in Shannon, Frankfurt and Malaga among other locations, according to data from Skyscanner.

Manny Ranga, 38, along with his wife Violeta Perez, 37, from Vancouver, Canada bought boxes of the wipes from their local Costco only to resell them at upwards of four times what they paid.

Uber and Lyft rubbed riders the wrong way with high-priced surge pricing that kicked in when people were rushing to escape during a deadly shooting that erupted in Seattle, leaving a woman dead.

The food delivery services are being sued in a class action lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan for levying heavy commission fees on restaurants that lead to higher menu prices.

Adelaide has the cheapest fuel in the country on average with prices falling to 89.5 cents per litre on April 1 for unleaded. Brisbane has the second cheapest price of 98.3 cents per litre.

The official soft toy is on sale at John Lewis and Waitrose for £15, but is already being advertised for nearly four times that price - despite the commercial itself not even airing on TV until Saturday.

The goods affected could include everything from hand sanitiser, toilet paper and painkillers to food staples including pasta and rice. The Competition & Markets Authority wants to stop profiteering.

'Unscrupulous' eBay users are attempting to exploit desperate shoppers in the midst of the coronavirus crisis by selling out-of-stock essentials for more than ten times their shop price.

Arguably, the best thing that could happen over the next decade would be for homes to get less expensive, preferably through house prices stagnating and wages rising.

House prices have only ever been as expensive as they are now compared to wages twice in the past 120 years, but surprisingly before that they were considerably more costly, a deep dive shows.

Amid the coronavirus lockdown, that quintessentially British question is inevitably being asked: what will happen to house prices?

A total of 77 cheap deals are set to finish at the end of January or February meaning consumers will be shunted on to their provider's more expensive standard energy tariff.

The BBC drama White Gold shows actors Joe Thomas and James Buckley encouraging customers to spend thousands of pounds on, often unnecessary, new windows.

More than 11million households in Britain are at risk of overpaying £3.5billion on their energy bills this year, simply because the Big Six refuse to give them a better deal, new research claims.

The cheapest energy tariffs have fallen by an average of £32, thanks to falling wholesale costs, new data has revealed at a time when consumption is likely to be higher with people at home more.

In a sign that customers might be getting tired of splashing their cash on expensive gadgets, Samsung and Apple, have both released two new models that can be bought for under £450.

Amazon's Black Friday deals have launched with huge savings on their smart home devices including the Echo Dot, Echo Show, Fire Sticks, Kindles and more. Find out what you can save here...

Property website Zoopla has revealed where buyers in England and Wales are getting the biggest discounts on initial asking prices - and the locations where sellers achieve 100%.

House prices will rise 15.3% on average across Britain in the next five years, according to estate agent Savills - including by 24% in the North West.

Crammed into stuffy offices or overcrowded trains at rush hour, the idea of escaping the rat race and starting afresh on an isolated island is a dream for many.

The shift in London house price momentum is due to a decrease in the number of new properties for sale, which has restricted supply, property website Zoopla said.

The average house price in the North-East - £127,570 - remains about 6 per cent below its level in 2007, before the financial crisis.

Port Talbot in South Wales was identified by property website Zoopla as 2019's top spot. House prices there rose by 7.5 per cent to reach £122,074.

As thousands of country pubs, shops and post offices have shut down over the past few decades, loneliness has become an increasingly serious problem for village folk.