House prices

House prices up 0.5% month-on-month

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a "modest pick-up" in house price growth in...

Burnley is most affordable area for first-time buyers

Halifax has revealed that the cost challenge facing first-time buyers increased significantly over the...

Rightmove predicts 2% house price growth in 2020

Rightmove has predicted that the price of property coming to market in Britain will...

Midlands and North properties good for mid-term investment

Post Office Money has revealed the locations which have seen the greatest house price...

December house prices up 4% year-on-year

Halifax has reported that house prices in December were 4.0% higher than in the...

Housing market remains subdued

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that house prices have fallen on...

Nationwide: annual house price growth remains below 1%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth remained subdued at...

Expectation of London property price stability

Bridging & Development Lender Affirmative has released its Mortgage & Market Overview report with...

Halifax: “glacial” rate of house price growth

October saw house prices fall by 0.1% on a monthly basis, according to Halifax. In...

0.2% month-on-month rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has reported little change in UK house price growth in...

Average house prices almost triple in 20 years

The number of prime residential housing transactions have increased rapidly in the past 20...

Rightmove sees no Autumn bounce in house prices

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

Monthly fall of 1.3% in London house prices

UK house prices grew by 1.3% in the year to August 2019, up from...

Halifax: flat trend in house price growth continues

Halifax has reported that house prices in September were 1.1% 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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