House prices

Islington the top area for 2020 house price growth

2020 saw some lucky homeowners see the value of their property rise by an...

Halifax: expect house prices falls next year

Halifax has warned that it expects house prices to fall by between 2% and 5%...

ONS: London house prices down 1.2% month-on-month

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that, on average, UK house prices rose...

E.surv sees slowing down in house price growth

E.surv's latest Chartered Surveyors’ House Price Index found that, on average, house prices across...

House prices up 7.6% year-on-year

Halifax has revealed that house prices in November were 1.2% higher than in October,...

Nationwide: 0.9% November rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society's House Price Index for November has revealed that prices up...

3% average annual increase in Scottish house prices

Fraser Steele Chartered Surveyors' Scottish House Price Index has reported data for September 2020. This...

The South still dominates for long-term BTL investment

Aldermore’s new Buy to Let City Tracker has studied 50 cities across the country to...

South West sees largest house price rises

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that house prices in September 2020...

E.surv reports 0.9% rise in house prices

e.surv Chartered Surveyors’ House Price Index for October has revealed that the average house...

House price growth to slow despite record highs

Halifax has revealed that house prices in October were 7.5% higher than in the...

Annual house price growth at highest rate since Jan 2015

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth reached a five-year...

Large spike in buyers and sellers coming to market

NAEA Propertymark has revealed that the number of prospective buyers registered per estate agent branch...

Demand for larger properties driving “mini boom”

Halifax has revealed that the recent growth in housing market activity has been driven...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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