House prices

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,...

York location of highest 2022 property price inflation

Towns and cities with the strongest house price growth saw their average property value...

House prices fall by 2.3% month-on-month

Halifax has reported that average house prices fell in November, as the rate of...

Nationwide reports 1.4% monthly fall in house prices

Annual UK house price growth slowed to 4.4% in November, from 7.2% in October,...

Zoopla: house price inflation losing momentum fast

Zoopla has reported that the UK’s current house price inflation has slowed to 7.8%,...

ONS reports September house price data

UK average house prices increased by 9.5% over the year to September 2022, down...

Rigtmove reveals small October rise in asking prices

Rightmove has reported the the average price of property coming to market rises by...

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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UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

The Buckinghamshire launches new discounted rate range

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a new discounted rate mortgage range, giving brokers greater...

Norton Home Loans completes first MAB case after lender panel appointment

Norton Home Loans has completed its first case with Mortgage Advice Bureau since joining...

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