House prices

Luton tops house price growth poll

Luton recorded the biggest percentage rise in house prices among major UK towns and...

Land Registry reveals latest price paid data

The Land Registry has published Price Paid Data for residential and commercial land and property sales in...

Winchester ‘best place to live’ in UK

The 2016 Halifax Quality of Life Survey has revealed that Winchester has been named...

London house prices beginning to cool

Average house prices in the UK increased by 6.9% in the year to October...

51% rise in housing stock value over past decade

Halifax has revealed that the total value of privately owned housing stock in the UK...

Rightmove forecasts 2% house price growth next year

Rightmove's December House Price Index has revealed that the price of property coming to...

Cooling of house price inflation continues

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to November were 0.8%...

Crossrail already creating house price boost

Homes close to stations serving London’s new Crossrail route are already seeing an increase...

Slight slowing in annual rate of house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices increased by 0.1% in...

New Forest is least affordable National Park

House prices in the 12 National Parks surveyed are, on average, £118,711 – or...

‘Brexit effect’ to have less impact on the North?

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) is expecting a particularly buoyant market in the North of England...

Britons turning a blind eye to crime

Latest research from Direct Line Home Insurance has found that 8% of Britons say they have been a...

Posh west London feel Stamp Duty effect

Analysis by London estate agent Stirling Ackroyd of data before and after Stamp Duty reforms...

10.9% annual rise in London house prices

September data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows an annual price increase...

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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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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...

Home insurance price falls ease as market shows signs of stabilising

Average combined buildings and contents premiums continued to edge lower last month, according to...

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