House prices

Property wealth continues to rise for retired homeowners

KeyRetirement.com has revealed that retired homeowners have seen their property wealth grow by £9.24...

Fears of property price crash following Brexit

61% of Brits who think that their house price will decrease if Britain leaves...

Housing market is slowing down

The housing market in England & Wales is slowing down, both in terms of...

Annual house price growth remains unchanged

The Halifax has reported that annual rate of growth in May was unchanged at...

Nationwide: house prices up slightly

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices edged up 0.2% in...

Most expensive April sale was for a flat

The 'Price Paid Data' from Land Registry for April 2016 has revealed that the...

Sandbanks tops seaside house price poll

There has been a 32% rise in house prices across British seaside towns over the...

Kensington & Chelsea still most expensive neighbourhood

Property prices per square metre have risen by 432% in Greater London against a...

ONS: house prices up 9% year-on-year

UK house prices increased by 9.0% in the year to March 2016, up from...

House prices fall in top 25% of London market

Stirling Ackroyd's latest London Hubs Tracker has found that while London has avoided any...

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...

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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