House prices

Homeowners look to improve not move

24% of homeowners plan to move within the next five years and nearly 10%...

Annual rate of house price growth eased in November

Halifax has reported that house prices between September and November 2017 were 2.4% higher...

Most brokers expect further London house prices falls in Q4

63% of respondents to the most recent broker poll from United Trust Bank (UTB) expect...

National Park homes cost an extra £116,500

Lloyds Bank has revealed that homes in national parks attract a premium of £116,501. House...

London sees lowest annual house price growth

The Office for National Statistics has reported that in September there was an annual price...

Annual rate of house price growth continues to rise

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three month were 2.3% higher...

No housing quick fix available

There is no easy answer when it comes to building enough new houses to...

Save £480k with a 60-minute commute

Lloyds Bank has calculated that people living an hour away from London and making the...

Beaconsfield passes £1m market town milestone

Lloyds Bank has calculated that homebuyers looking to live in a market town will...

House price growth slows

Annual house price growth slowed in September 2017, according to the latest house price...

Large rise in new property listings

New property listings were up by 20.2% in September compared to August, according to...

House price annual growth rate up 4%

Halifax has reported that house prices rose by 0.8% between August and September, following...

London house prices down for first time in eight years

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that in September, London was the weakest performing region...

Largest university town house price growth revealed

Halifax has reported that university towns across the UK (excluding London) recorded an increase in...
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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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