House prices

Research highlights ‘Waitrose effect’ on house prices

Lloyds Bank has established that living close to a well-known supermarket chain can add...

Hometrack: city level house price growth plateauing

Hometrack has predicted that sales volumes are likely to slow with price growth moderating...

Normality returning to Scottish housing market

Your Move and Acadata have reported an increase of 0.9% in house prices in...

Annual house price rise of 13.6% in London

The Land Registry's May data shows an annual price increase of 8.1% which takes...

Rightmove: small July fall in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the price of property coming to the market in July...

Modest house price rise in June

House prices in the UK increased in June despite the pending EU referendum decision, according...

Halifax: pace of house growth may be easing

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to June were 8.4%...

New book outlines state’s challenges ahead

Academics, parliamentarians and leading industry figures have contributed to a new publication, outlining the...

House prices up 0.2% in June

The Nationwide Building Society has reported a slight increase in house price growth in June. Prices...

Bristol house price growth outstripping London

Bristol has become the first city outside of the South East to see house...

Brexit: London housing market to remain disrupted

Richard Donnell, insight director at Hometrack, has expressed his opinion on how Brexit will...

6.2% rise in first-time buyer property prices

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

Young professionals flock to East Sussex coast

The BN3 postal district in Hove is once again the most desirable location to...

14.5% annual house price growth for London

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that UK average house prices increased by...

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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