House prices

Sluggish house price growth continues

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that annual house price growth remained subdued in...

Fall in property demand in January

January saw the number of house hunters registered per estate agent branch fall from...

House prices fall by 2.9% month-on-month

Halifax has reported that house prices in the latest quarter (November-January) were 0.6% lower...

Oxford is the UK’s least affordable city

Lloyds Bank has found that city house prices in the UK have outpaced earnings...

Nationwide expects low house price growth – if economy grows

The Nationwide Building Society has rooted that annual house price growth almost ground to...

Transactions fell 2.4% in 2018: Your Move

Your Move has reported that house prices rose again in December for the fifth...

House price growth slowdown continues: ONS

The Office for National Statistics has reported that average house prices in the UK...

House price growth remains moderate

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to December were 1.3%...

House prices fell 0.7% in December: Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society's latest house price index shows that house price growth slowed...

Most affordable commuter towns for London revealed

Online mortgage broker Trussle has published a list of what it claims to be...

Halifax expects stronger house price growth in 2019

Halifax has said that the housing market performed in line with its expectations over...

House prices “continue to flatline”

The latest house price index from LSL Property Services and Acadata has found that...

New Forest tops national park house price poll once again

House prices in UK national parks are on average £121,383 more expensive than similar...

Annual house price growth rises slightly to 1.9%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that house prices increased by 0.3% between October...

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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