House prices

Nationwide: house price growth “subdued”

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house price growth remained broadly stable in...

Rate of UK city house price inflation rises

Hometrack has reported that the divergence in house price growth between southern England and...

Garden property areas 42% better for house prices 

Areas across England with the most residential gardens are home to property prices 42%...

Rutland found safest, most affordable place to buy

The East Midlands county of Rutland is the best place to buy property across England and...

Small fall in house prices, says ONS

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that house prices fell by 0.3% in January....

Second steppers finding it more difficult to move home

A Nationwide Building Society poll has found that people are putting their lives on...

Scotland dwarfs England & Wales house price growth

Your Move has reported that annual house price growth in Scotland is now over...

Ninth month of slowing annual house price growth

Your Move and Acadata have reported that average house prices rose again in February,...

Annual rate of house price growth continues to slow

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

PM’s housing threats “unhelpful and misguided”, say councils

The Prime Minister has warned developers who are too slow to build houses that...

Nationwide: house prices fell by 0.3% last month

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house price growth fell back in...

Cities to close house price growth gap on London

Large regional cities like Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester look set for a 20% to...

Collapse in home ownership amongst the young

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found that today’s young adults are significantly...

ONS: small December house price rise

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has stated that in December house prices rose by...

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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