House prices

Zoopla calls for softer stress tests to unlock homeownership for renters

Loosening lending rules with mortgage stress testing rates closer to 6-7% would help more...

Slight monthly decline in house prices

UK house prices remained largely stable in February, recording a marginal decline of 0.1%...

First-time buyer activity recovery continues

UK house prices experienced a 0.4% increase in February, marking the sixth consecutive month...

Housing market steadies as January sees 14% annual rise in transactions

Residential property transactions showed signs of stabilisation at the start of the year with...

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...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Regulation

FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...
First-time buyers

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...
Buy-to-let

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...
News

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

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