House prices

Land Registry: prices up 6.7% year-on-year

The January Market Trend Data from Land Registry shows an annual price increase of...

Negotiation power returns to homebuyers

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) January Housing Market Report has revealed that...

Easing in house price optimism

The latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker as found that house price optimism fell...

Three-year high in housing market confidence

Latest research from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks suggests confidence in the UK property market has...

House price growth moving towards Liverpool, Sheffield & Glasgow

Hometrack has revealed in its latest UK Cities House Price Index that over the...

North vs south pattern to housing market recovery

Property sales in the first 10 months of 2014 were 21% higher than in the...

Rightmove: lowest ever stock of quality property for sale

Rightmove has recorded its busiest ever month for traffic and leads to agents. This...

Smallest annual house price growth for 10 months

In January 2015, the average price paid for a home in England & Wales...

RICS: cooling market in England & Wales continues

Scotland and Northern Ireland’s housing market outperformed the rest of the UK in January,...

Bounce back in house price growth

House prices in last three months were 1.9% higher than in the previous three...

Homeowner confidence not dented by slowdown

Property owners are still expecting home price values to climb a further 7% on...

Land Registry sees house price growth slowing

December saw an annual price increase of 7.0% which takes the average property value...

Annual house price growth continues to moderate

UK house prices rose by 0.3% in January, the Nationwide Building Society has reported....

Convergence in city level house price growth

UK house prices increased by 0.4% in December to 8.3% year-on-year (4.5% in 2013)...

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Navigating a changing buy-to-let landscape in 2025

The buy-to-let market has long been a cornerstone of the UK property sector, but recent trends and upcoming policy changes are reshaping the landscape. For...

Heavy refurbishment: structuring finance for complex property upgrades

Investors are rethinking their approach to property - heavy refurbishment is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity for unlocking value in today’s...

Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

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L&C Mortgages appoints Sidney Wager as managing director

L&C Mortgages has confirmed that Sidney Wager is to join the business as managing...

No surprises from Monetary Policy Committee meeting

The Bank of England has announced that the Bank Rate will remain at 4.5%. The...

Gatehouse Bank added to Mortgage Brain sourcing platforms

Mortgage Brain has added Shariah-compliant ethical bank, Gatehouse Bank, to its Sourcing Brain and...

InterBay makes key sales appointments

Commercial lender InterBay, part of OSB Group, has bolstered its broker support with the...