House prices

Home Counties house price growth 37% up on national average

House prices across the Home Counties rose by £312,749 between 1999 and 2024, according...

UK homeowner equity reaches £5.7 trillion

The total value of the nation’s property equity has risen to a record £5.7...

Rightmove expects more active autumn property market

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

ONS reports July rise in house prices and rents

The Office for National Statistics has reported that average UK private rents increased by...

Halifax reports 0.8% monthly rise in house prices

Halifax has reported that UK house prices rose in July, following three relatively flat...

New index shows scale of homebuying affordability challenge in UK

Skipton Group has launched its Home Affordability Index today. It combines data on the...

Rightmove expects improvement in homebuyer confidence

Rightmove has reported that average new seller asking prices on its platform fell by...

Housing market activity remains fairly subdued

Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices increased up by 0.2% in...

House price growth sees ‘modest’ rebound

Nationwide Building Society has reported an increase in annual house prices in May of...

Salcombe remains country’s most expensive coastal location

According to the latest analysis from Lloyds Bank, Salcombe (pictured) has retained its position...

Younger buyers expect green improvements to boost home value

74% of millennial and Gen Z buyers (18 to 34 year-olds) believe energy efficiency...

Halifax: house prices have plateaued

Halifax has reported that UK house prices increased on a monthly basis in April...

Affordability issues behind monthly house price fall

Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices fell by 0.4% in April,...

Major regional differences in housing market for FTBs

There are stark regional differences in conditions for first-time buyers, according to Coventry for...
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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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