House prices

Price gap between houses and flats at 30-year high

The housing market is continuing to register positive momentum in 2025 with Zoopla’s latest...

Rents continue to rise but rental growth slows

The average UK private rent increased by 8.7% in the 12 months to January...

Conveyancing chaos on the horizon as stamp duty deadline sparks property panic

Looming stamp duty changes are likely to cause conveyancing chaos with Rightmove predicting a...

First-time buyer market surges as numbers soar 19% in a year

The UK’s first-time buyer market saw a major resurgence in 2024 with 341,068 newcomers...

House prices hit record high as market sees early 2025 growth

UK house prices rose by 0.7% in January, reversing a 0.2% dip in December...

A patchwork of pockets emerges in London’s prime property market

The prime property market in London has become increasingly fragmented, with significant differences in...

Residential property transactions surge 19% year-on-year in December

Residential property transactions rose 19% year-on-year in December, reaching 96,330 on a seasonally adjusted...

Softening in house price growth

Nationwide has reported that the annual rate of house price growth slowed to 4.1%...

£200k between the most and least expensive home counties

Investec Bank has published the latest findings from its annual Property Index, which shows...

2024 sellers saw lower price growth than during the pandemic

Hamptons has reported that property gains have moved back towards pre-pandemic levels due to...

November house price rise largest of 2024, says Halifax

Halifax has reported that UK house prices rose by 1.3% in November 2024, the...

Nationwide reports robust end to 2024 for house prices

House prices across the UK finished last year strongly, up 4.7% compared with December...

Stoke tops 2024 house price growth table

Halifax has revealed the top 10 UK towns and cities with the greatest house...

Top 20 most expensive streets all in the capital

Knightsbridge in London was the most expensive street in which to buy property in...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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