House prices

Terraced homes most affordable in Scotland

Scotland has seen the average price of a flat north of the border rise by...

Strong growth in Scottish house prices

Your Move has reported that house prices in Scotland grew strongly in February, rising...

Housing market confidence settling to ‘new normal’

The latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker has found that confidence in the UK...

Most unaffordable local authorities revealed

Prospective homeowners in some parts of the country would need to save for 27 years before...

West Midlands has highest rate of annual house price growth

The average house price rose to £301,278 in March, up 0.5% month-on-month and 3.3%...

96% of £1m apartment sales are in London

The number of million pound apartment sales in England & Wales has grown by 196%...

Threefold rise in £1m apartment sales over past decade

The number of million pound apartment sales in England & Wales has grown by 196%...

House price growth continues to slow

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to March were 0.1%...

Nationwide: “softening” in house prices

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

Link between house prices and unemployment studied

Latest research from Lloyds Bank has found that areas with the largest improvements in...

Waltham Forest tops London borough FTB table

new research into first-time buyer house prices in London boroughs by Lloyds Bank has...

Housing affordability worsened for 98% of occupations

New research from mortgage broker Private Finance has found that rising house prices and stagnant wages...

House prices up 6.2% year-on-year

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported an annual price increase of 6.2% in...

The Midlands set house price pace

Rightmove has reported that the average price of newly marketed property increased by 1.3% (+£3,877)...
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COMMENT

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...

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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...
Building Societies

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...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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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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