House prices

Rightmove forecasts 2% house price growth next year

Rightmove's December House Price Index has revealed that the price of property coming to...

Cooling of house price inflation continues

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to November were 0.8%...

Crossrail already creating house price boost

Homes close to stations serving London’s new Crossrail route are already seeing an increase...

Slight slowing in annual rate of house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices increased by 0.1% in...

New Forest is least affordable National Park

House prices in the 12 National Parks surveyed are, on average, £118,711 – or...

‘Brexit effect’ to have less impact on the North?

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) is expecting a particularly buoyant market in the North of England...

Britons turning a blind eye to crime

Latest research from Direct Line Home Insurance has found that 8% of Britons say they have been a...

Posh west London feel Stamp Duty effect

Analysis by London estate agent Stirling Ackroyd of data before and after Stamp Duty reforms...

10.9% annual rise in London house prices

September data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows an annual price increase...

“General cooling” in housing market

The average house price in England and Wales is now £294,351, according to the...

House price optimism at lowest level since June 2013

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

Halifax: house prices largely unchanged

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months from August to October...

‘Only’ one million pound town in UK

The number of million pound house sales in the country in the first half of...

House prices unchanged month-on-month

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that, after 15 successive monthly increases UK house...
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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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