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BBC News
17 hours ago
- Business
- BBC News
Rate of Jersey house sales increases by 8% over 12 months
House prices in Jersey remain "unchanged" since the first quarter of 2025, new figures show, but the rate of sales has Jersey said the average price of properties sold on the island remained "broadly stable" in the second quarter of showed property turnover continued to improve and was 8% higher than the same period in 2024, with a 5% rise compared to the first quarter of showed that on a rolling four-quarter basis, prices remained 14% below the peak, which was recorded in the third quarter of 2022. Statistics Jersey said the average property price was 1% lower than the second quarter of Jersey House Price Index (HPI) measures the combined average price of showed the mean average price of one-bedroom flats sold in the latest quarter was £310,000, or £2,000 higher than in the first quarter of the the mean average price of two-bedroom flats was £514,000, which it said was "essentially unchanged" compared with the previous houses sold in the latest quarter were about £544,000, which was £27,000 lower than in the previous quarter, while the mean average price of three-bedroom houses increased by £18, said overall, housing market activity on a rolling four-quarter basis had seen an increase of 2% compared with the previous quarter and was 18% higher than the second quarter of 2024.
BBC News
23-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Jersey inflation rises to 2.6%, figures show
Inflation in Jersey has increased in the past three months, new figures have Retail Prices Index (RPI) for June 2025 said the annual figure was 2.6%, compared to the previous three months when it stood at 2.3%.The RPI, which measures changes in the price of goods and services, found leisure goods and services - including sports and off-island holidays - had made the largest contribution to the annual Jersey said a decrease in housing, petrol and diesel prices helped offset the overall rising costs. In December, the figure was 2.5% - a steep decrease since the historically high level of 12.7% in early 2023.
BBC News
18-06-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Change to frequency of Jersey lifestyle survey criticised
A Jersey deputy is urging the government to ensure a lifestyle survey is conducted annually, rather than every two years as currently Louise Doublet is asking for £79,000 to keep the Jersey Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (JOLS) going each proposal follows concerns raised after Statistics Jersey announced in 2024 budget cuts would force the survey to alternate years with the Children and Young Persons JOLS has been a key tool in gathering data on islanders' views and living conditions for nearly two decades, with more than 50,000 residents taking part, according to the Government of Jersey. The 2024 JOLS revealed that nearly one-third of surveyed households struggled with housing costs, which campaigners said was essential for shaping responsive and targeted said: "This is valuable statistical data needed to inform policy to target the most vulnerable in the island."If the survey is changed, as planned, to a bi-annual basis vital policy will fall behind the issues currently faced by islanders."
BBC News
30-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Opinions and lifestyle survey launched in Jersey
An annual survey set up to study Jersey islanders' experiences and views on certain topics has been government said Statistics Jersey's 2025 Opinions and Lifestyle Survey would be sent to 4,200 randomly selected households with the aim of helping to plan and deliver public services in the person in the household who has their birthday next and is aged over 16 would be asked to complete the survey online to give a good range of ages for those responding, the government added paper copies of the survey were also available and anyone selected to complete it had until 20 June to fill out the form. "The results of the survey will be published later this year," the government said.
BBC News
22-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Men urged to be 'allies' to combat Jersey's gender pay gap
Men have been invited to "unite" with women at a roundtable discussion on how to tackle the gender pay gap in Mourant from Mind the Gap - a group of female business leaders advocating for gender parity - said eight men were already signed-up to the event, which would focus on "ally-ship". At the heart of talks will be the 6.3% average pay gap between men and women, she said, with men earning on average £2 more than women per hour, according to a Statistics Jersey report published in March."We really believe that narrowing the gap benefits both men and women and we are only going to speak from a position of power if we are united," said Ms Mourant. The gender pay gap is widest in the finance and information sectors where men get paid more than 20% extra, according to Statistics gap also tends to widen as workers get older, peaking in people's 50s, according to the report. Ms Mourant said: "We have been told by male colleagues that they don't really know how to support us so we are delivering a roundtable about how best we can work together."She said the goal was to "hear experiences" and gain insights into what people could do to "move forward and let go of biases which are deeply ingrained in us as a society".She said the subject was "contentious" adding: "Most people will assume men and women can't get paid differently for doing the same job."That isn't the gender pay gap. We're talking about the average, the difference in earnings between men and women." She said reasons given for this gap included taking maternity time or a lack of said there was also a school of thought that women "lacked confidence" but that this was a "debunked myth"."If we start drilling down into different sectors and age ranges that disparity becomes absolutely wider."For us, this is all about bringing men into the conversation because we know we can't make change unless all of us are moving in the same direction."
