House prices

Twelfth successive monthly increase in house prices

Nationwide Building Society has revealed that there was a modest increase in the rate...

Bank of Mum & Dad threatened by cost of living crisis

The cost of living crisis is impacting family members’ ability to financially support their...

ONS reports May rise in annual house price growth

The latest house price data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for May...

Annual Scottish house price growth at highest level for 2022

Walker Fraser Steele has reported that annual Scottish house price growth now stands at...

Rightmove sees smallest house price increase since January

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

RICS: slowing demand cools pace of house price growth

The latest RICS Residential Market Survey, covering June, found that while house prices continued...

Halifax: housing market defies slowdown expectations

Halifax has reported that average property prices rose by 1.8% in June, the largest...

Zoopla: lowest monthly house price growth since December 2019

Zoopla has reported that average property prices were broadly unchanged in May at 0.1%,...

Nationwide: house price growth slows up

Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK annual house price growth slowed to 10.7% in...

Wales and Scotland saw most significant house price growth in 2021

Legal & General Surveying Services has revealed the UK regions experiencing the fastest house...

May increase in UK house price growth

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that UK...

Rightmove reports record asking prices

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

Scottish house price growth at highest level for 2022

Walker Fraser Steele has reported the highest year-to-date annual house price growth in Scotland...

House price growth cooling down

Halifax has reported that house prices increased by 1.0% in May, the 11th consecutive...

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...

Latest news

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...

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...

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