House prices

House prices continue to slow

House prices are down for the third month in a row, and the annual...

£41k rise in price of semi-detached in Scotland

The average price of a semi-detached property in Scotland has risen by £41,639 in...

Terraced homes ‘trending’ with first-time buyers

The average price of a flat in the UK has risen by £75,074 over...

Easing seen in annual house price growth

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

Record high for £1m house sales

The number of properties sold for more than a million pounds in Great Britain...

Over 90,000 sales of land and property in England & Wales in March

The Land Registry has published Price Paid Data for March 2018. It includes details of more...

Nationwide: 0.2% April rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a slight increase UK annual house growth in...

Scotland house prices rising at fastest rate in a decade

Your Move and Acadata have reported that annual price growth in Scotland accelerated to...

Six regions set new peak average house prices

The latest house price index from LSL Property Services/Acadata has revealed that the rate...

House price growth still outpaces wages across most of the south

Halifax research has ascertained that properties in almost one in five UK local authority districts (LADs)...

RICS: one year on and buyer demand continues to slip

RICS' housing survey for March has found that the momentum in the UK housing...

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%...

COMMENT

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

Latest news

The West Brom promotes Gareth Madeley to chief customer officer

West Brom Building Society has appointed Gareth Madeley as its new chief customer officer,...

Industry leaders unite behind MIMHC Lunch

HSBC UK, Virgin Money, Nottingham Building Society, Landbay and top broker firms Mortgage Advice...

Santander raises foreign national mortgage lending to 90% LTV

Santander UK has expanded its foreign national mortgage policy by increasing the maximum loan-to-value...

Keystone passes £2bn in securitisation issuance with sixth Hops Hill deal

Keystone Property Finance has completed its sixth securitisation, taking total issuance under its Hops...

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