House prices

Solid growth for Scottish house prices continues

Your Move and Acadata have reported that Scottish house prices continued to grow in...

Large premiums for homes close to top state schools

Average property prices in the postal districts of the top 30 state schools in...

1.1% monthly rise in house prices

July data from Land Registry shows an annual price increase of 5.1% which takes...

Rise in annual rate of house price growth

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three months were 0.1% higher...

New campaign promotes London house building

London has seen a record number of requests to build new homes in 2017,...

Nationwide sees house price growth slow

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

FTBs driving sales north of the border

Average house prices in Scotland increased 0.5% in June, while annual growth jumped to...

Summer slowdown for housing market

Your Move and Acadata have stated that house prices reduced by 0.2% in July,...

Household wealth grows by £3.9 trillion since 2006

The UK's total household wealth totalled an estimated £10.5 trillion in 2016, according to...

House prices fall for fourth successive quarter

Halifax has reported that house prices in between May and July were 0.2% lower...

House prices see ‘modest’ 0.3% increase month-on-month

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual pace of house price growth remained...

Hackney sees large house price per square metre rise

Boroughs in London continue to dominate the UK's list of the most expensive property...

Housing demand up, supply down in July

NAEA Propertymark (National Association of Estate Agents) has reported that the number of sales...

Land Registry reports 0.5% monthly rise in house prices

The Land Registry's House Price Index for May 2017 shows an annual price increase...

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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