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ONS reports house price growth to end 2019

The Office for National Statistics has revealed that December 2019 house prices in England...

Welsh homeowners are the biggest retired winners

Equity release adviser Key has reported that retired homeowners' property wealth increased by more...

Rightmove reports large monthly rise in asking prices

Rightmove has reported a 2.3% (+£6,785) monthly rise in the average price of property...

£33k premium for most popular market towns

Those looking to buy a home in one of England’s popular market towns are...

Halifax: modest monthly increase in house prices

Halifax has reported that house prices in January were 4.1% higher than in the...

House prices up 0.5% month-on-month

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a "modest pick-up" in house price growth in...

Burnley is most affordable area for first-time buyers

Halifax has revealed that the cost challenge facing first-time buyers increased significantly over the...

Rightmove predicts 2% house price growth in 2020

Rightmove has predicted that the price of property coming to market in Britain will...

Midlands and North properties good for mid-term investment

Post Office Money has revealed the locations which have seen the greatest house price...

December house prices up 4% year-on-year

Halifax has reported that house prices in December were 4.0% higher than in the...

Housing market remains subdued

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that house prices have fallen on...

Nationwide: annual house price growth remains below 1%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth remained subdued at...

Expectation of London property price stability

Bridging & Development Lender Affirmative has released its Mortgage & Market Overview report with...

Halifax: “glacial” rate of house price growth

October saw house prices fall by 0.1% on a monthly basis, according to Halifax. In...

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2026 forecasts: Atom bank

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“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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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...

Improving mortgage choice and lower rates ease affordability pressures for homebuyers

Homebuyers entering the market this Christmas are benefiting from improved mortgage choice and lower...

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