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Halifax: largest house price rise in six months

Halifax has reported that house price growth in March totalled 1.4%, the biggest increase for...

Nationwide: house prices now 21% than before Covid

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that March saw a further acceleration in annual...

Londoners unhappy with lack of affordable housing

Londoners are the most dissatisfied in the country when it comes to the housing...

House prices rise at fastest annual pace for 15 years

Halifax has reported that monthly house price growth increased to +0.5% in February. With the...

February rise in annual house price growth

Nationwide Building Society has reported that house price growth increased to 12.6% in February,...

ONS: 2021 ended with increase in house price growth

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that UK average house prices increased...

Halifax reports slowing in house price growth

House price growth slowed in January, according to the latest house price index from...

One in five plan to buy a property this year

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that one in five UK adults plan to...

Nationwide sees strongest market start to year for 17 years

Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth increased to 11.2% in...

New high in value of housing available for equity

A record £760 billion of equity was available for release in UK homes in...

London continues to see lowest annual house price growth

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that UK average house prices increased by...

Rightmove reports 0.3% rise in average prices coming to market

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

22% of workers expect to use home to fund retirement

Research from Legal & General Home Finance (LGHF) has found that 22% of people...

Halifax: house prices rose 9.8% in 2022

Halifax has reported that UK house prices climbed again in December for the sixth...

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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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