House prices

Scotland dwarfs England & Wales house price growth

Your Move has reported that annual house price growth in Scotland is now over...

Ninth month of slowing annual house price growth

Your Move and Acadata have reported that average house prices rose again in February,...

Annual rate of house price growth continues to slow

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three months to February were...

PM’s housing threats “unhelpful and misguided”, say councils

The Prime Minister has warned developers who are too slow to build houses that...

Nationwide: house prices fell by 0.3% last month

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house price growth fell back in...

Cities to close house price growth gap on London

Large regional cities like Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester look set for a 20% to...

Collapse in home ownership amongst the young

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found that today’s young adults are significantly...

ONS: small December house price rise

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has stated that in December house prices rose by...

Half a million households at risk of negative equity

Computershare Loan Services has warned that a fall in the average UK house price of...

House price falls in London, South East and North East

January 2018 saw house prices continue to fall in London, where prices have been...

Annual house price rises slowing, says Halifax

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three months to January were...

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'...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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