House prices

Trussle: longer mortgages set to eat into pensions

The next generation of homeowners may well be paying off their mortgages into retirement,...

Sandbanks regains most expensive seaside town title

Halifax has reported that Sandbanks in Dorset was Britain’s most expensive seaside town in...

Halifax: largest house price rise in six months

Halifax has reported that house price growth in March totalled 1.4%, the biggest increase for...

Nationwide: house prices now 21% than before Covid

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that March saw a further acceleration in annual...

Londoners unhappy with lack of affordable housing

Londoners are the most dissatisfied in the country when it comes to the housing...

House prices rise at fastest annual pace for 15 years

Halifax has reported that monthly house price growth increased to +0.5% in February. With the...

February rise in annual house price growth

Nationwide Building Society has reported that house price growth increased to 12.6% in February,...

ONS: 2021 ended with increase in house price growth

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that UK average house prices increased...

Halifax reports slowing in house price growth

House price growth slowed in January, according to the latest house price index from...

One in five plan to buy a property this year

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that one in five UK adults plan to...

Nationwide sees strongest market start to year for 17 years

Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth increased to 11.2% in...

New high in value of housing available for equity

A record £760 billion of equity was available for release in UK homes in...

London continues to see lowest annual house price growth

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that UK average house prices increased by...

Rightmove reports 0.3% rise in average prices coming to market

Rightmove has said that the average price of property coming to market rose by...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...