House prices

Market swinging back toward sellers

NAEA Propertymark has reported that demand from prospective buyers grew by 9% in April. On...

Slight fall in house prices

Office for National Statistics' March data shows, on average, house prices have fallen by...

London house prices rose by 40% over past five years

Lloyds Bank has revealed that despite the recent slowdown in London house prices, the...

House prices continue to slow

House prices are down for the third month in a row, and the annual...

£41k rise in price of semi-detached in Scotland

The average price of a semi-detached property in Scotland has risen by £41,639 in...

Terraced homes ‘trending’ with first-time buyers

The average price of a flat in the UK has risen by £75,074 over...

Easing seen in annual house price growth

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

Record high for £1m house sales

The number of properties sold for more than a million pounds in Great Britain...

Over 90,000 sales of land and property in England & Wales in March

The Land Registry has published Price Paid Data for March 2018. It includes details of more...

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...

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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