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

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

Monica Demeterova cannot have a childcare business until her husband Michal’s disclosure application is done. Photograph: Fabio De Paola for the Observer

In pictures

Surreal estate: a folly of towering proportions … quite literally

The UK’s tallest folly, Hadlow Tower near Tonbridge in Kent. Photograph: High Level Photography/Eddisons

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.

The tiny scratches that can result in large bills when you hire a Green Motion car. Composite: Handout

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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