You can sell your home for as little as £999 on a new property website run by estate agency group Spicerhaart in association with supermarket giant Tesco.

This means you can save thousands of pounds in estate agency fees. The move comes after an Office of Fair Trading ruling that estate agency rules should be relaxed to allow more online competition. Google is rumoured to be eyeing up the market as well.

The iSold.com site describes itself as a halfway house between an online service and a traditional estate agent.

We're right in the middle of Fairtrade fortnight at the moment so you've probably seen and heard advertising encouraging you to do the right thing and buy Fairtrade produce.

Of course, in an ideal world we all would - who doesn't want to at least try and help the developing world? Unfortunately though, the reality is that most of us are on a tight budget these days, and Fairtrade products are always more expensive. It's cynical I know, but that's enough to put most of us off buying them.

What if I told you though, that you can do your bit without being left out of pocket? I've found a few places where you can Fairtrade items really don't cost the Earth, including Tesco. Check them out over the jump.

Ocado, the people who deliver your shopping from Waitrose – the Duchess of Cornwall's favourite supermarket – are pressing ahead with a stock exchange listing, despite other big businesses recently deciding now is not the time to be looking for an injection of investment cash.

New Look, the high street fashion chain, and Merlin Entertainments, who own Madame Tussaud's and Legoland, recently dropped their plans for a listing citing the volatility of the market.

It's not just a small investment Ocado is looking for, the online grocer is wanting £1billion and that could be a big ask when you bear in mind that the company hasn't turned a real profit in any of the eight years it's been in business.

Tesco is thought to be gearing up to launch a property website and Google could also enter the fray. This could shake up the landscape of Britain's housing market, which so far has been dominated by traditional estate agents.

Competition among estate agents is set to intensify after a report from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) suggested that legislation on buying and selling houses dating back to 1979 should be relaxed to allow more online estate agents into the market to give consumers a better deal.

So what will it mean?

Fancy this MASSIVE bag of crisps for a quid? There are enough to make you really ill for days. How about a mop? You can never have too many staple guns, that's what my mum always told me.

For at Poundland you can get a simply bewildering range of items for, well, a pound. And it's great news because it's forcing down mainstream shop prices.

Tesco and Richard Branson's Virgin group will open their own high street banks this year. They will be joined by lesser-known names Walton & Co and Metro Bank.

They will be the first new high street banks in a generation. They say they will change the face of British banking actually offering decent customer service. But will they? Or will they be taken over by greed like all the others?

It's something Walletpop readers have been saying forever, and now the rest of the country has finally caught on: if you want a grocery shopping experience to leave you feeling ripped off and angry, go to one of the big names. If you want happiness, try somewhere smaller.

A survey has revealed that the best shopping experiences come from either end of the cost spectrum. The research, by Which? found that the happiest shoppers were Waitrose customers, eight out of ten of whom were pleased, followed by Aldi and Lidl shoppers, where six in ten enjoyed the experience.

So how did the big names fare, and what does this tell us?

The reaction to Kraft's imminent takeover of Cadbury continues to rumble along with the latest news being an announcement from US chocolate maker Hershey that they won't be making a rival bid to the £11.9 billion offer already on the table.

Considering that Hershey were only ever a side-bet on having any involvement, it's strange they even felt it necessary to say anything at all. But it does give you an idea on the backroom machinations that are still going like the clappers in a bid to scupper Kraft's deal.

Everyone has had a say on this most controversial of hostile takeovers, from the Government trying to get Kraft to guarantee jobs to the Dairylea-makers key shareholder Warren Buffet expressing his reservations about the whole deal.

Though it's really down to the shareholders and that offer of 840p a share is mighty tempting.

Retail sales were a washout last month, because shops kept their prices high. So retailers actually had quite a good Christmas, with higher prices sending the shop tills ringing. But it was bad news for shoppers.

By contrast, last Christmas, at the height of the recession, many retailers panicked and brought their sales forward. There was much less discounting this time round as the feeling was that the economy is over the worst.

Tesco launched its range of Buy One Get One Free...Later deals recently.

The promotions are supposedly to cut food waste, but there have been accusations that it's really just a marketing ploy like any other and all the supermarket chain cares about is your cash.

For long time Tesco watchers, this isn't going to come as a huge shock.

Consumers "fed up with being fed up" are buying Belgian chocolates and champagne again.

Last week, Sainsbury's surprised all those who thought it would suffer badly during the recession because of its upmarket reputation. It had a record Christmas that heralded a "swing back to quality", said the supermarket chain's boss Justin King.

Virgin Money finally moved into retail banking last week, by snapping up a small private bank.

Sir Richard Branson has made no secret of his desire to take on the UK's big high street banks.

Branson's finance arm, Virgin Money, applied for a banking licence last October, in a move that was expected to herald another takeover bid for the nationalised Northern Rock.

It seemed like such a good idea at the beginning – when the Government announced that it would be cutting the rate of VAT to 15%, from 17.5% for six months or so.

Instantly, it made loads of things 2.5% cheaper. Good stuff. Then the news came that the discount period would be extended until the end of 2009.

The cost in terms of lost tax revenue to the Government was put at around £11 billion but it was all for a good purpose and it seemed to work as retail sales are said to have benefited by around £7 billion.

But now it's payback time.

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As we near the end of a turbulent year for our finances, we look back at some of the highs and lows as reported on Walletpop...

We've all been there; stuck in a stalemate with a customer care robot, because something you bought from the company has broken down, and they refuse to do anything about it.

Most manufacturers give a one-year warrantee, so if it breaks down before the year is out you can get a repair or replacement. However, if you're into your second year, they may well refuse to help – citing the one-year guarantee as the limit of their responsibilities.

There is, however, a little-known EU law, which means you can stand your ground and get a replacement any time within two years of buying the product, and there's another useful law which could get you a refund a few more years down the line too.

A brilliant survey just out has shown just how high we Brits set the bar when we aspire to wealth. And it's not that high.

It seems the key to long-lasting financial happiness is a household income of £79,000 and a garden longer than 100 feet. See? Not so impossible after all!