House prices

BTL rush stretching first-time buyer affordability

Rightmove has reported a small rise of 0.4% (+£1,118) in price of property coming...

Halifax: annual house price growth may ease

The Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to April were 9.2% higher...

Bank of Mum & Dad equivalent to a top-10 lender

This year, home buyers will receive £5 billion of help from families and friends,...

Unemployment stalling house price growth

The divide in house prices between areas with the highest and lowest levels of unemployment...

Generation Rent still have homebuying aspirations

Halifax's 2016 Generation Rent report has found that delays in getting onto the housing ladder...

Land Registry: house prices down 0.5% in March

The Land Registry March house price data has revealed a monthly price fall of 0.5%. The...

Rate of house price growth slows down

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that, while house prices in the UK increased...

Negative equity still widespread around country

Hundreds of thousands of UK homeowners who bought property in 2007 are likely to...

Londoners more likely to sell up

14% of UK homeowners have decided to move while 21% are planning on improving...

Highest quarterly city house price growth for 12 years

City level house price inflation over the first three months of 2016 reached 4.2%,...

Scottish house prices down for first time in eight months

Scottish house prices fell by 1% in February, Your Move has stated. The average price...

London deposit situation “unsustainable”

Research by My Home Move has found that the average deposit paid for a...

House prices boosted by BTL rush

Rightmove has revealed that the average price of property coming to market up in...

Growing pessimism in housing market

Confidence in the UK housing market is at its lowest level in over a...

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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...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

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Precise marks first anniversary of broker app

Precise, part of the OSB Group, is celebrating the first anniversary of its broker...

Paymentshield expands senior sales team to strengthen intermediary partnerships

Paymentshield has doubled the size of its national account management team in a restructure...

Landlord profits approach five-year high as sector shows resilience

Nearly nine in 10 landlords are making a profit, according to new research for...

Ultimate Finance chief joins NACFB board

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers has appointed Josh Levy, chief executive of...