House prices

FTB growth steady despite winter slowdown

There was a tradition fall in the number of first-time buyers between November and...

Mortgage rate rise expectations decline

The latest quarterly Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker has found that confidence in the...

Nationwide reports small monthly rise in house prices

House prices increased by 0.3% in January, the Nationwide Building Society has stated. The...

Dragonfly expands BDM team

Dragonfly Property Finance has added two more external business development managers (BDMs) to its...

Average homeowners making hundreds a week

Online estate agent eMoov.co.uk has calculated that, on average homeowners across the UK made...

Parking spaces carrying a premium price point

Developers are on average charging 5% of a new property’s purchase price for an accompanying...

ONS: 8.3% house price inflation in England

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that UK house prices increased by...

0.6% house price rise in December

The rise in house prices in England and Wales has continued, with December 2015...

Buyers taking longer to submit offers

Online estate agent eMoov.co.uk has claimed that property buyers now take 53 minutes to...

Property lowest asset risk over past 20 years

A new property index has concluded that residential property investment in England and Wales...

Halifax: house prices up 1.7%

House prices increased by 1.7% between November and December, the Halifax has reported.  This maintained...

New round of L&G Mortgage Club LIVE events

Legal & General Mortgage Club will host its fifth series of Mortgage Club LIVE...

Travelcard snobbery over as London buyers look further afield

Estate agents Marsh & Parsons have predicted that Tooting and Queen’s Park are the...

Hart should be where the home is

Hart, a town in north east Hampshire, has topped the 2015 Halifax Quality of Life Survey...

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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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Newcastle for Intermediaries lifts interest-only LTV to 80%

Newcastle for Intermediaries has made substantial changes to its interest-only mortgage range, raising the...

RAW Capital Partners strengthens sales team with two promotions

RAW Capital Partners has promoted two members of its Guernsey-based sales team in recognition...

Conveyancing Association welcomes ntitle as latest affiliate member

The Conveyancing Association has announced that title investigation specialists ntitle have joined as its...

The Cumberland joins Paradigm panel with specialist holiday let mortgages

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added the Cumberland Building Society to its lender panel, opening...