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Harriet Meyer

Money Talks: London tops property league, and Argos squares up to Amazon

One Hyde Park — The One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge, London. A flat here was sold last year for £140m. Photograph: Alamy

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

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London rises dramatically above New York in global prime property league

Argos squares up to Amazon with same-day delivery across UK

Starter homes will ‘stymie social mobility’

How will the plastic bag charge affect me?

1.1m UK households have mortgage debts worth 4.5 times their income

Cost of dying outstrips inflation

Pension freedoms see under-65s cashing in

Feature

How your life can be turned on its head by credit agencies who get it wrong

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Work advice

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In the spotlight

The want-to-work mothers trapped at home by prohibitive cost of childcare

Clare Greenhalgh — Clare Greenhalgh and her son. Photograph: Howard Barlow

In pictures

Homes for sale near universities

New Walk, Leicester — New Walk, Leicester.

Consumer champions

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I used EU Delay after my flight was delayed. Now it refuses to send me my money

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