House prices

North-South house price divide re-emerges

House prices fell in June, continuing to slide for the third month in a...

Help to Buy hitting London FTBs

An estate agent has warned the the London housing market is being badly distorted...

Loss of house price momentum in London

The Halifax House Price Index, administered by IHS Markit, indicates a sustained slowdown in...

UK sees change in concentration of £1m+ house sales

More than half of £1m+ property purchases are set to take place outside Greater...

Halifax: annual house price growth eases

Halifax has reported that house prices have flattened over the past three months. Prices...

Prime London transactions remain subdued

London Central Portfolio's (LCP) analysis of Land Registry data for the first quarter of...

Annual house price growth edges up to 3.1%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a rebounding of house prices in June, with...

NAEA: prospective buyer demand up 15%

NAEA Propertymark has reported that just 3% of properties sold for more than asking...

One-third of second steppers want family help

32% of homeowners looking to take their second step on the property ladder think they will still...

Scottish house prices growing faster than in England & Wales

Your Move’s latest Scotland House Price Index has found that house prices increased in...

ONS: house prices up 1.6% month on month

The latest house price index from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed an...

Sharp slowdown in house sales in London

House prices in England and Wales rallied to a new peak in May, according...

House prices back on the rise again

Halifax has reported that UK house prices in May rose by 0.4%. However, annual house...

House prices fall for three months in a row

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that house prices recorded their third consecutive monthly...

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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