House prices

Halifax reports house price fall in April

Halifax's house price index for April has found that, on a monthly basis, house...

Nationwide: annual house price growth up to 3.7%

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that annual house price growth in April moved...

Distributor calls for house price indices’ suspension

The Brightstar Group believes there should be an "immediate and indefinite" suspension of all...

ONS: February house prices down 0.6%

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

Halifax reveals pre-lockdown house price data

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

Nationwide: house prices up 0.8% in March before crisis

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth increased to 3%...

January fall in house prices

The Office for National Statistics has reported that, on average, house prices in January...

Halifax: house prices up 0.3% in February

Halifax has reported that house prices in February were 2.8% higher than in the...

Strongest annual house price growth rate for 18 months

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK annual house price growth continued to...

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...

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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