House prices

Rising mortgage rates to hit household buying power by up to 28%

Zoopla believes that the housing market is slowly transitioning to a buyers market as...

Scotland’s house price growth continues

Walker Fraser Steele has reported that annual Scottish house price growth is currently running...

Annual house price growth back in double digits

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

E.surv: annual price growth up to 12.2%

E.surv has reported that annual price growth increases to 12.2% in England & Wales. It...

Halifax reports likely slowdown in market activity

Halifax has reported that the typical house price reached another record high in August...

Annual house price growth remains in double digits

Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth softened in August. That said,...

Rightmove reports ‘traditional’ August fall in house prices

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

Halifax reports first house price fall of 2022

Halifax has reported that house prices fell marginally by -0.1% in July, the first...

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...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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