House prices

Halifax: easing in annual house price growth

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to August were 0.7%...

Record number of people falling into IHT net

The proportion of properties sold in England and Wales above the £325,000 Inheritance Tax...

Parents spending £50k+ to live near top state school

Parents are willing to pay an average of £53,000 more to live in an...

Nationwide: August rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices rose by 0.6% in August. This resulted...

Housing cost of an ‘Outstanding’ education revealed

Living in the catchment area of a state secondary school with an ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted...

Scottish house prices up 4% annually

Scottish house prices saw a month on month decline in June, for the first...

London completed house sales down 50% year-on-year

The Land Registry's June data has revealed an annual house price increase of 8.7%. This takes...

Rightmove: 2016 to be year of two halves

According to Rightmove's August house price index, the price of property marketed in the...

RICS: house price growth “run out of steam”

House price growth continued to slow in the UK in July while key indicators...

Property market contracting pre-Brexit

In July, house prices rose by £700, or 0.2%, to an average £293,318, according...

Halifax: house prices down 1%

House prices in the three months to July were 1.6% higher than in the...

Little change in annual rate of house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that house prices in the UK rose by...

46% see property wealth as key to retirement income planning

Long term growth in UK house prices and homeowners’ lasting attachment to their homes...

Thatcher & Blair oversaw highest London house price growth

House prices in London rose by 251% and 209% during Thatcher and Blair’s time...
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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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