House prices

House prices see strong finish to 2016

LSL Property Services and Acadata have reported that house price growth of 0.4% in...

Q4 recovery in house prices

UK house prices rebounded in the final quarter of 2016, according to the latest...

Halifax: strong 2016 finish for house prices

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to December were 6.5% higher...

Luton tops house price growth poll

Luton recorded the biggest percentage rise in house prices among major UK towns and...

Land Registry reveals latest price paid data

The Land Registry has published Price Paid Data for residential and commercial land and property sales in...

Winchester ‘best place to live’ in UK

The 2016 Halifax Quality of Life Survey has revealed that Winchester has been named...

London house prices beginning to cool

Average house prices in the UK increased by 6.9% in the year to October...

51% rise in housing stock value over past decade

Halifax has revealed that the total value of privately owned housing stock in the UK...

Rightmove forecasts 2% house price growth next year

Rightmove's December House Price Index has revealed that the price of property coming to...

Cooling of house price inflation continues

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to November were 0.8%...

Crossrail already creating house price boost

Homes close to stations serving London’s new Crossrail route are already seeing an increase...

Slight slowing in annual rate of house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices increased by 0.1% in...

New Forest is least affordable National Park

House prices in the 12 National Parks surveyed are, on average, £118,711 – or...

‘Brexit effect’ to have less impact on the North?

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) is expecting a particularly buoyant market in the North of England...

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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...