House prices

ONS reports increase in annual house price growth

UK average house prices increased by 10.0% over the year to May 2021, up...

Halifax reports 0.5% fall in house prices

Halifax has reported with June saw the first monthly fall in house prices for...

Annual house price growth at highest level since 2004

Annual house price growth accelerated to 13.4% in June, the highest level since November...

ONS sees house price growth slowing

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

Halifax: house prices up 1.3% in May

Halifax has reported that house prices reached another record high in May, with the...

Annual house price growth increases to 10.9%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that house prices in May 2021 were up...

RICS: buyer demand remains firm

RICS UK Residential Survey for April 2021 reveals that respondents frequently highlighted the mismatch between...

April house prices 1.4% higher than in March

Halifax has reported that house prices reached a record high for the second month...

North West sees highest annual house price growth

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that average house prices in February...

Halifax: housing market resurgence in March

Halifax has reported that, on a monthly basis, house prices in March were 1.1%...

March slowdown in annual house price growth

The Nastionwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth slowed to 5.7%...

Pandemic property hotspots revealed

The UK’s pandemic property hotspot, according to Land Registry data analysed by Andrews Property...

Small fall in annual average house price growth

The Office for National Statistics has reported that UK average house prices rose by...

Halifax: recent house price growth unlikely to continue throughout 2021

Halifax has reported that house prices in February were 0.1% lower than in January. However,...

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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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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