House prices

I don’t expect large house price fluctuations in either direction

As I write this, the Rightmove asking house price index has just been published,...

Rightmove: new sellers responding to improving market

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

RICS predicts brighter future amidst weak market conditions

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has reported a market continuing to struggle,...

Halifax reports return of house price falls

Halifax has reported that average house price fell by 0.3% in April, following the...

Nationwide: house prices rise in April

Nationwide Building Society has reported that house prices increased by 0.5% during April, after...

Nearly £17k made on property by pensioners over last 12 months

Over-65s have seen their property wealth increase by nearly £1,400 a month in the...

Rightmove: number of agreed sales now back to pre-pandemic levels

Rightmove has reported that new seller asking prices in April 2023 rose by just...

Average UK house prices fall for third consecutive month

Average UK house prices increased by 5.5% in the 12 months to February 2023,...

Equity release advisers expect house price falls

62% of equity release advisers predict that house prices will continue to fall in...

Salcombe leapfrogs Sandbanks to become top seaside spot

Salcombe in Devon is now the most expensive seaside location in Britain to buy...

House prices fall for sixth month in a row

House prices down 1.1% year-on-year in February, according to the Nationwide Building Society. This was...

House prices stabilised in January, says Halifax

Halifax's latest house price index has found that UK house prices were stable in...

Further slowing down in annual house price growth

Nationwide Building Society has reported that the start of 2023 saw a further slowing...

ONS: house prices down 0.3% in November

Latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that in November 2022,...

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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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