House prices

Nationwide: 0.2% April rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a slight increase UK annual house growth in...

Scotland house prices rising at fastest rate in a decade

Your Move and Acadata have reported that annual price growth in Scotland accelerated to...

Six regions set new peak average house prices

The latest house price index from LSL Property Services/Acadata has revealed that the rate...

House price growth still outpaces wages across most of the south

Halifax research has ascertained that properties in almost one in five UK local authority districts (LADs)...

RICS: one year on and buyer demand continues to slip

RICS' housing survey for March has found that the momentum in the UK housing...

Nationwide: house price growth “subdued”

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house price growth remained broadly stable in...

Rate of UK city house price inflation rises

Hometrack has reported that the divergence in house price growth between southern England and...

Garden property areas 42% better for house prices 

Areas across England with the most residential gardens are home to property prices 42%...

Rutland found safest, most affordable place to buy

The East Midlands county of Rutland is the best place to buy property across England and...

Small fall in house prices, says ONS

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that house prices fell by 0.3% in January....

Second steppers finding it more difficult to move home

A Nationwide Building Society poll has found that people are putting their lives on...

Scotland dwarfs England & Wales house price growth

Your Move has reported that annual house price growth in Scotland is now over...

Ninth month of slowing annual house price growth

Your Move and Acadata have reported that average house prices rose again in February,...

Annual rate of house price growth continues to slow

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three months to February were...

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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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Merry Christmas from Opus First Media!

Wishing you a Soup-er Christmas and a prosperous 2026! Between Christmas and the New Year...

Two-thirds of landlords plan to expand portfolios

Two-thirds of landlords are planning some form of growth activity in the year ahead...

High street banks line up in £2.5bn contest for Evelyn Partners

Barclays and NatWest Group have progressed to the second round of an auction for...

Improving mortgage choice and lower rates ease affordability pressures for homebuyers

Homebuyers entering the market this Christmas are benefiting from improved mortgage choice and lower...

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