House prices

Average Scottish house prices break £200k barrier

House prices in Scotland increased on average by 2.3% during December 2020, according to...

Average house price now £251,500

The latest ONS House Price Index for December 2020 has revealed that the year...

Biggest monthly fall in house prices since April 2020

Halifax has reported that the average UK house price fell by -0.3% in January,...

House prices fall by 0.3%

Nationwide has reported that January saw annual house price growth slowing for the first...

ONS: November house price rise of 1.2%

The Office for National Statistics has revealed that house prices in the UK increased...

House prices rise for six months in a row

Halifax has revealed that house prices in December 2020 were 0.2% higher than in...

Islington the top area for 2020 house price growth

2020 saw some lucky homeowners see the value of their property rise by an...

Halifax: expect house prices falls next year

Halifax has warned that it expects house prices to fall by between 2% and 5%...

ONS: London house prices down 1.2% month-on-month

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

E.surv sees slowing down in house price growth

E.surv's latest Chartered Surveyors’ House Price Index found that, on average, house prices across...

House prices up 7.6% year-on-year

Halifax has revealed that house prices in November were 1.2% higher than in October,...

Nationwide: 0.9% November rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society's House Price Index for November has revealed that prices up...

3% average annual increase in Scottish house prices

Fraser Steele Chartered Surveyors' Scottish House Price Index has reported data for September 2020. This...

The South still dominates for long-term BTL investment

Aldermore’s new Buy to Let City Tracker has studied 50 cities across the country to...

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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