House prices

Scotland sees slow house price growth

Your Move has reported that house prices in Scotland increased by just 0.1% in...

Singletons think it takes two to buy first property

25% of single people believe it will be impossible to buy their own home...

Strongest house price growth in a year

Your Move and Acadata have reported that house prices grew at their fastest pace...

House prices outpace owners’ earnings in 119 local areas

New research from the Halifax has found that average house prices have increased by...

Fall in annual rate of house price growth

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to February 2017 were 5.1% higher...

House prices rise by 0.2%

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

Over 97,000 property sales registered in January

The January 'price paid' data from the Land Registry includes details of over 97,400 residential...

Oxford is UK’s least affordable city

Home affordability, as measured by the ratio between average city house prices and average...

Rightmove: 2% monthly rise in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the annual rate of increase in house prices in February...

Scotland house prices rise by over £400 in December

Your Move has reported that house prices keep edging up in Scotland, increasing 0.2%...

Homeowners believe renovations key to profit

Research from Co-op Insurance has found that 91% of homeowners think their house value has...

Land Registry: average property value now £236,424

The Land Registry's UK House Price Index for December shows an annual price increase of...

Housing market resilience “continues to defy the doubters”

The housing market got off to a strong start in 2017, with prices growing...

One third of homes for sale discounted

31.3% of properties currently for sale in the UK’s major towns and cities have...
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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

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Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

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