House prices

Halifax: house price growth rates “robust”

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to January 2017 were...

Brexit to hit London property market the hardest

Investment management business Kames Capital believes regional property markets around the UK currently offer...

Small monthly rise in house prices

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

Terraced house sells for £16.2m

The Land Registry has revealed that there were over 87,600 residential and commercial land and property...

Londoners three times more likely to gazump

New research by bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that property buyers...

Huge rise in house prices near Crossrail stations

Average house prices  near stations along Crossrail have increased dramatically since the South East...

House prices see strong finish to 2016

LSL Property Services and Acadata have reported that house price growth of 0.4% in...

Q4 recovery in house prices

UK house prices rebounded in the final quarter of 2016, according to the latest...

Halifax: strong 2016 finish for house prices

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to December were 6.5% higher...

Luton tops house price growth poll

Luton recorded the biggest percentage rise in house prices among major UK towns and...

Land Registry reveals latest price paid data

The Land Registry has published Price Paid Data for residential and commercial land and property sales in...

Winchester ‘best place to live’ in UK

The 2016 Halifax Quality of Life Survey has revealed that Winchester has been named...

London house prices beginning to cool

Average house prices in the UK increased by 6.9% in the year to October...

51% rise in housing stock value over past decade

Halifax has revealed that the total value of privately owned housing stock in the UK...

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...

Latest news

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...

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...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

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

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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