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Homeowners can boost retirement savings by leveraging pensions and property wealth

Homeowners could nearly double the amount of money they have on hand for retirement...

House prices soar again: 1.3% rise pushes average home to nearly £300,000

UK house prices increased by 1.3% in November - the fifth consecutive month of...

Zoopla forecasts buoyant housing market for 2025

The UK housing market is set to experience a significant rebound in 2025, with...

Surprise as house prices surge at fastest rate in two years

House prices in the UK rose at their quickest pace in two years in...

Borrowers not yet benefitting from lower costs

Borrowers are spending over two-fifths of their salary on mortgage repayments, according to new...

House price to income ratio easing improves homebuying affordability

Marginal house price inflation, in conjunction with strong wage growth, means buying a home...

New Forest maintains National Park house price top spot

The New Forest in Hampshire is the most expensive National Park in the UK...

Scottish house prices continue to edge up

Scottish house prices in September picked up by 0.2% or £400 compared with August, according...

E.surv records first monthly house price rise for six months

E.surv has reported that the average sale price of a home in England and...

Fourth consecutive monthly increase in house prices

Halifax has reported that house prices increased by 0.2% in October, which represents a...

E.surv acquires house price data analytics firm

Valuations business, e.surv Chartered Surveyors, has acquired the intellectual property and brand of Acadata,...

Nationwide reports slowdown in annual house price growth

Annual house price growth slowed in October, down to 2.4% from 3.2% in the...

UK house prices reach two-year high

Halifax has reported that house prices increased by 0.3% in August 2024, after the...

Fastest annual house price growth in two years, reports Nationwide

Nationwide has reported that UK house prices increased by 0.7% in September, after taking...

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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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London exodus slows as leavers stay closer to the capital

The pandemic-era rush out of London is firmly in retreat with new figures showing...

Merry Christmas from Opus First Media!

Wishing you a Soup-er Christmas and a prosperous 2026! Between Christmas and the New Year...

Two-thirds of landlords plan to expand portfolios

Two-thirds of landlords are planning some form of growth activity in the year ahead...

High street banks line up in £2.5bn contest for Evelyn Partners

Barclays and NatWest Group have progressed to the second round of an auction for...

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