House prices

Link between house prices and unemployment studied

Latest research from Lloyds Bank has found that areas with the largest improvements in...

Waltham Forest tops London borough FTB table

new research into first-time buyer house prices in London boroughs by Lloyds Bank has...

Housing affordability worsened for 98% of occupations

New research from mortgage broker Private Finance has found that rising house prices and stagnant wages...

House prices up 6.2% year-on-year

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported an annual price increase of 6.2% in...

The Midlands set house price pace

Rightmove has reported that the average price of newly marketed property increased by 1.3% (+£3,877)...

Scotland sees slow house price growth

Your Move has reported that house prices in Scotland increased by just 0.1% in...

Singletons think it takes two to buy first property

25% of single people believe it will be impossible to buy their own home...

Strongest house price growth in a year

Your Move and Acadata have reported that house prices grew at their fastest pace...

House prices outpace owners’ earnings in 119 local areas

New research from the Halifax has found that average house prices have increased by...

Fall in annual rate of house price growth

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to February 2017 were 5.1% higher...

House prices rise by 0.2%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that the annual rate of house price growth...

Over 97,000 property sales registered in January

The January 'price paid' data from the Land Registry includes details of over 97,400 residential...

Oxford is UK’s least affordable city

Home affordability, as measured by the ratio between average city house prices and average...

Rightmove: 2% monthly rise in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the annual rate of increase in house prices in February...

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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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Two-thirds of landlords plan to expand portfolios

Two-thirds of landlords are planning some form of growth activity in the year ahead...

High street banks line up in £2.5bn contest for Evelyn Partners

Barclays and NatWest Group have progressed to the second round of an auction for...

Improving mortgage choice and lower rates ease affordability pressures for homebuyers

Homebuyers entering the market this Christmas are benefiting from improved mortgage choice and lower...

Cynergy Bank completes first residential mortgage-backed securitisation

Cynergy Bank has completed its debut securitisation transaction, securing capital relief as it continues...

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