House prices

House price inflation and transactions continue to slow

House prices rose up by the narrowest of margins in September, with the average...

Easing in annual rate of house price growth

House prices in the three months to September were 5.8% higher than in the...

IHT to hit home for 585,000 UK millionaires in 2020

NFU Mutual has calculated there was a 27% rise in the number of millionaires...

Nationwide: softening in annual house price growth

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

Investec to hold broker event on Brexit and London market

Investec Private Banking is holding a broker insight event on the evening of 13 October, to provide...

Huge house price saving from one hour’s commute

Those people working in London could save themselves almost £450,000 (60%) on the cost of...

London asking prices down 3% since mid-June

The UK housing market remains "alive and active", according to analysis of the UK...

House prices up 8.3% year-on-year

The Land Registry's July data shows an annual price increase of 8.3%, which takes...

Halifax: easing in annual house price growth

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to August were 0.7%...

Record number of people falling into IHT net

The proportion of properties sold in England and Wales above the £325,000 Inheritance Tax...

Parents spending £50k+ to live near top state school

Parents are willing to pay an average of £53,000 more to live in an...

Nationwide: August rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices rose by 0.6% in August. This resulted...

Housing cost of an ‘Outstanding’ education revealed

Living in the catchment area of a state secondary school with an ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted...

Scottish house prices up 4% annually

Scottish house prices saw a month on month decline in June, for the first...

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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...