LONDON / AP Britain is considering charging employers 1,000 pounds ($1,200) a year for every skilled worker they recruit from the European Union after the UK leaves the bloc, the country’s immigration minister said. Robert Goodwill told a House of Lords committee the charge is “something that’s been suggested to us that could apply” to EU workers. Britain has ...

  Bloomberg Just weeks after the UK voted to leave the European Union, Peter Thompson, a British healthcare consultant, sold one of his two homes in the fishing town of Tavira in Portugal’s Algarve region, capitalizing on the plunge in the pound against the euro. Thompson and his wife, who spend half the year in the British northwest county of ...

  Bloomberg Spending months to find the perfect home in your price range, only to have your mortgage application rejected, or a home inspection turn up expensive repairs, is a nightmare—one that is coming true with increasing frequency, according to a new report from real estate listings website Trulia. A Trulia analysis of US listings shows that 3.9 percent of ...