House prices

Half a million households at risk of negative equity

Computershare Loan Services has warned that a fall in the average UK house price of...

House price falls in London, South East and North East

January 2018 saw house prices continue to fall in London, where prices have been...

Annual house price rises slowing, says Halifax

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

10-year low for city home affordability

Lloyds Bank’s Affordable Cities Review has found that home affordability across cities in the...

Annual house price growth rises to 3.2%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a "surprising" increase in the annual rate of...

Buyers’ market in London and southern cities

London and other southern cities such as Oxford and Cambridge are increasingly becoming buyers'...

Annual house price growth in Scotland now 3.5%

House prices in Scotland returned to growth in November 2017, rising 0.3% and raising...

Annual house price growth rate continues to fall

Your Move has reported that average prices in England and Wales rose marginally in...

Halifax reports monthly house price fall

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three months of 2017 were...

House prices rose by 2.6% in 2017

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth ended the year...

Cheltenham was 2017 house price winner

Cheltenham saw the highest percentage rise in house prices of any major UK town...

Hometrack: rents to grow 2% over 2018

Richard Donnell, insight director at Hometrack, has explained his three defining themes for the...

House prices return to monthly growth

Average house prices saw a return to growth in November after several months of...

Average price for £1m homes falls for third year in a row

Sales of million pound properties in northern England strongly outperformed many other parts of...
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COMMENT

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...

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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...
Building Societies

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...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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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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