House prices

Halifax: “glacial” rate of house price growth

October saw house prices fall by 0.1% on a monthly basis, according to Halifax. In...

0.2% month-on-month rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has reported little change in UK house price growth in...

Average house prices almost triple in 20 years

The number of prime residential housing transactions have increased rapidly in the past 20...

Rightmove sees no Autumn bounce in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the price of property coming to market has fallen by...

Monthly fall of 1.3% in London house prices

UK house prices grew by 1.3% in the year to August 2019, up from...

Halifax: flat trend in house price growth continues

Halifax has reported that house prices in September were 1.1% higher than in the...

Nationwide: annual house price growth fell to 0.2% in September

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that house price growth remained subdued in September. There...

House price slump means inheritance tax rebate for many

Analysis by NFU Mutual of house price data data has shown that families could...

ONS: slowdown in house price growth continues

The Office for National Statistics has reported that in July, on average, house prices...

Rightmove reports “summer buying spree”

Rightmove has reported that the average price of property coming to market in August...

Nationwide: annual house price growth remains subdued at 0.6%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth remained below 1%...

Halifax reports second month of slight house price falls

Halifax has reported that house prices in July fell by 0.2% on a monthly...

Nationwide: house prices remain subdued

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that July saw a 0.3% month-on-month rise in...

Intervention needed to keep homeownership dream alive

Santander Mortgages has warned that the dream of homeownership for middle-income Britain, individual buyers...

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Heavy refurbishment: structuring finance for complex property upgrades

Investors are rethinking their approach to property - heavy refurbishment is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity for unlocking value in today’s...

Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

Why it matters that bridging hit more than £10bn last year

We see many numbers bandied around in the financial industry, which can sometimes have a numbing effect. So why should we all, especially brokers, care...

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Three-quarters of brokers expect rate hold

76% of specialist brokers expect that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...

The Finance Family adopts Acre as platform for growth

Midlands-based The Finance Family has migrated its team of over 20 brokers to Acre’s...

‘Consumer thinking’ holding businesses back from better finance solutions

New research from Time Finance has revealed that many UK businesses default to consumer-style...

British Business Bank reports how pivotal first Covid lockdown was

Five years since the first Covid-19 lockdown, new data from Start Up Loans, part...