House prices

Over 97,000 property sales registered in January

The January 'price paid' data from the Land Registry includes details of over 97,400 residential...

Oxford is UK’s least affordable city

Home affordability, as measured by the ratio between average city house prices and average...

Rightmove: 2% monthly rise in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the annual rate of increase in house prices in February...

Scotland house prices rise by over £400 in December

Your Move has reported that house prices keep edging up in Scotland, increasing 0.2%...

Homeowners believe renovations key to profit

Research from Co-op Insurance has found that 91% of homeowners think their house value has...

Land Registry: average property value now £236,424

The Land Registry's UK House Price Index for December shows an annual price increase of...

Housing market resilience “continues to defy the doubters”

The housing market got off to a strong start in 2017, with prices growing...

One third of homes for sale discounted

31.3% of properties currently for sale in the UK’s major towns and cities have...

Halifax: house price growth rates “robust”

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to January 2017 were...

Brexit to hit London property market the hardest

Investment management business Kames Capital believes regional property markets around the UK currently offer...

Small monthly rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that the annual rate of house price growth...

Terraced house sells for £16.2m

The Land Registry has revealed that there were over 87,600 residential and commercial land and property...

Londoners three times more likely to gazump

New research by bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that property buyers...

Huge rise in house prices near Crossrail stations

Average house prices  near stations along Crossrail have increased dramatically since the South East...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...