House prices

1.8% house price growth for third consecutive month

Monthly prices rose modestly in August, according to the latest house price index from...

Halifax: quarterly house price growth at 3.7%

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to August increased by...

Coventry is top university city for house price growth

Average property prices in the UK’s top 50 university towns and cities have risen...

House prices grow by 35% in areas with top performing state schools

Lloyds Bank research has established that house price growth in areas with top performing...

£27k house price premium for top state schools

Living in the catchment area of one of England’s top 100 state secondary schools...

House prices still recovering from financial crisis

The latest UK Cities House Price Index House from Hometrack has found that prices...

July sees rise in annual house price growth to 3.3%

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to July increased by...

Tottenham Hotspur “run-away champions” of house price growth

To mark the start of the 27th Premier League season in a week's time,...

Nationwide: “modest rebound” in annual house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that house prices in July rose 0.6% month-on-month. The...

London sellers becoming more realistic on pricing

Hometrack has revealed that UK city house price inflation in June was 4.6% year-on-year,...

Scottish housing market “pausing for breath”

Your Move has reported that annual house price growth in Scotland in May stood...

House prices see early summer slowdown in May

Latest May data from the Office for National Statistics shows that, on average, house...

All regions saw annual house price growth in June

Your Move has reported that average prices in England and Wales were slightly down...

Annual house price growth remains flat

Halifax has reported that house prices continue to remain broadly flat, with the annual...

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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