House prices

BTL rush stretching first-time buyer affordability

Rightmove has reported a small rise of 0.4% (+£1,118) in price of property coming...

Halifax: annual house price growth may ease

The Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to April were 9.2% higher...

Bank of Mum & Dad equivalent to a top-10 lender

This year, home buyers will receive £5 billion of help from families and friends,...

Unemployment stalling house price growth

The divide in house prices between areas with the highest and lowest levels of unemployment...

Generation Rent still have homebuying aspirations

Halifax's 2016 Generation Rent report has found that delays in getting onto the housing ladder...

Land Registry: house prices down 0.5% in March

The Land Registry March house price data has revealed a monthly price fall of 0.5%. The...

Rate of house price growth slows down

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that, while house prices in the UK increased...

Negative equity still widespread around country

Hundreds of thousands of UK homeowners who bought property in 2007 are likely to...

Londoners more likely to sell up

14% of UK homeowners have decided to move while 21% are planning on improving...

Highest quarterly city house price growth for 12 years

City level house price inflation over the first three months of 2016 reached 4.2%,...

Scottish house prices down for first time in eight months

Scottish house prices fell by 1% in February, Your Move has stated. The average price...

London deposit situation “unsustainable”

Research by My Home Move has found that the average deposit paid for a...

House prices boosted by BTL rush

Rightmove has revealed that the average price of property coming to market up in...

Growing pessimism in housing market

Confidence in the UK housing market is at its lowest level in over a...

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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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Home insurance price falls ease as market shows signs of stabilising

Average combined buildings and contents premiums continued to edge lower last month, according to...

Hamptons fundraising partnership with Mind reaches £150,000 milestone

Estate agency Hamptons has raised £150,000 for mental health charity Mind since the partnership...

Scotland and Yorkshire lead UK housing market activity in 2025

Scotland and Yorkshire have emerged as home to the UK’s most active housing markets...

Affordability issues likely to intensify until 2027, lenders warn

Mortgage affordability is expected to become a more pressing issue by 2027, according to...

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