House prices

London completed house sales down 50% year-on-year

The Land Registry's June data has revealed an annual house price increase of 8.7%. This takes...

Rightmove: 2016 to be year of two halves

According to Rightmove's August house price index, the price of property marketed in the...

RICS: house price growth “run out of steam”

House price growth continued to slow in the UK in July while key indicators...

Property market contracting pre-Brexit

In July, house prices rose by £700, or 0.2%, to an average £293,318, according...

Halifax: house prices down 1%

House prices in the three months to July were 1.6% higher than in the...

Little change in annual rate of house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that house prices in the UK rose by...

46% see property wealth as key to retirement income planning

Long term growth in UK house prices and homeowners’ lasting attachment to their homes...

Thatcher & Blair oversaw highest London house price growth

House prices in London rose by 251% and 209% during Thatcher and Blair’s time...

Research highlights ‘Waitrose effect’ on house prices

Lloyds Bank has established that living close to a well-known supermarket chain can add...

Hometrack: city level house price growth plateauing

Hometrack has predicted that sales volumes are likely to slow with price growth moderating...

Normality returning to Scottish housing market

Your Move and Acadata have reported an increase of 0.9% in house prices in...

Annual house price rise of 13.6% in London

The Land Registry's May data shows an annual price increase of 8.1% which takes...

Rightmove: small July fall in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the price of property coming to the market in July...

Modest house price rise in June

House prices in the UK increased in June despite the pending EU referendum decision, according...

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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...