Hilary Osborne 

Ticket touts could be licensed, plus the chance to snap up a towering folly

Also, a backlog in safety checks means nurses and teachers can’t work, and how tiny scratches can lead to huge car hire bills
  
  

Lead singer Thom Yorke of the British band Radiohead
Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Tickets for one of the band’s concerts in London are on offer for £3,900. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images

Hello and welcome to this week’s Money Talks – a roundup of the week’s biggest stories and some things you may have missed.

Money news

Ticket touts face licensing threat

Pension exit charges to be capped at 1% under FCA proposals

Graduate whose loan grew by £1,800 in one year says students were misled

Payday loan complaints nearly triple in a year

British property market has peaked, estate agency boss says

Cost of residential parking permits rises 50% in five years

Only a fraction of UK job ads offer flexibility, study finds

Feature

DBS: safety check backlog means nurses, carers and teachers cannot work

In pictures

Surreal estate: a folly of towering proportions … quite literally

In the spotlight

Hiring a car can be a costly business, as readers of Guardian Money have found out. This week Miles Brignall revealed how one firm had charged large bills for tiny scratches, and tackled another that insisted a driver buy unnecessary insurance.

Consumer champions

Fraudster posing as TalkTalk took £1,800 from my account

Mercedes-Benz had me waiting for weeks after it damaged my car

Extra Energy gets customers hot under the collar

Money deals

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Get expert fee-free advice to help you find the right mortgage deal from the Guardian mortgage service, provided by L&C.

 

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