House prices

10-year low for city home affordability

Lloyds Bank’s Affordable Cities Review has found that home affordability across cities in the...

Annual house price growth rises to 3.2%

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a "surprising" increase in the annual rate of...

Buyers’ market in London and southern cities

London and other southern cities such as Oxford and Cambridge are increasingly becoming buyers'...

Annual house price growth in Scotland now 3.5%

House prices in Scotland returned to growth in November 2017, rising 0.3% and raising...

Annual house price growth rate continues to fall

Your Move has reported that average prices in England and Wales rose marginally in...

Halifax reports monthly house price fall

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three months of 2017 were...

House prices rose by 2.6% in 2017

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that annual house price growth ended the year...

Cheltenham was 2017 house price winner

Cheltenham saw the highest percentage rise in house prices of any major UK town...

Hometrack: rents to grow 2% over 2018

Richard Donnell, insight director at Hometrack, has explained his three defining themes for the...

House prices return to monthly growth

Average house prices saw a return to growth in November after several months of...

Average price for £1m homes falls for third year in a row

Sales of million pound properties in northern England strongly outperformed many other parts of...

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...
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COMMENT

Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

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...

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Appointments

The West Brom promotes Gareth Madeley to chief customer officer

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

Industry leaders unite behind MIMHC Lunch

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

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...
Buy-to-let

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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