House prices

22% of workers expect to use home to fund retirement

Research from Legal & General Home Finance (LGHF) has found that 22% of people...

Halifax: house prices rose 9.8% in 2022

Halifax has reported that UK house prices climbed again in December for the sixth...

Average house price rose almost £24k during 2021

Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth remained in double digits...

ONS: house prices up 10.2% year-on-year

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that average house prices in the...

Rightmove: buyer demand and market momentum remain strong

Rightmove has reported a continuation of the seasonal fall in the price of property...

Halifax: house price rises for fifth consecutive month

House prices in the UK increased once again in November, with the value of...

Nationwide: house prices up 0.9% month-on-month

Annual house price growth remained strong in November at 10.0%, marginally higher than the...

ONS: average house price now £270,000

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

Rightmove: October price records in all regions and sectors

The price of property coming to market in October increased by an average of...

Victorian property prices “could plummet” with EPC targets

Hargreaves Lansdown has warned that Victorian homes' lack of energy efficiency could see their...

£10bn rise in available UK housing equity

Canada Life has calculated that over £740 billion of equity was available for release...

House prices rise for fourth consecutive month

Halifax has reported that UK house prices rose once more in October, as the...

Price of average UK home up £30k since start of pandemic

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth remained elevated in...

August increase in UK house price growth

The latest house price index from the Land Registry for August 2021 show that...

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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...