House prices

No housing quick fix available

There is no easy answer when it comes to building enough new houses to...

Save £480k with a 60-minute commute

Lloyds Bank has calculated that people living an hour away from London and making the...

Beaconsfield passes £1m market town milestone

Lloyds Bank has calculated that homebuyers looking to live in a market town will...

House price growth slows

Annual house price growth slowed in September 2017, according to the latest house price...

Large rise in new property listings

New property listings were up by 20.2% in September compared to August, according to...

House price annual growth rate up 4%

Halifax has reported that house prices rose by 0.8% between August and September, following...

London house prices down for first time in eight years

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that in September, London was the weakest performing region...

Largest university town house price growth revealed

Halifax has reported that university towns across the UK (excluding London) recorded an increase in...

Solid growth for Scottish house prices continues

Your Move and Acadata have reported that Scottish house prices continued to grow in...

Large premiums for homes close to top state schools

Average property prices in the postal districts of the top 30 state schools in...

1.1% monthly rise in house prices

July data from Land Registry shows an annual price increase of 5.1% which takes...

Rise in annual rate of house price growth

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three months were 0.1% higher...

New campaign promotes London house building

London has seen a record number of requests to build new homes in 2017,...

Nationwide sees house price growth slow

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

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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