House prices

14% rise in property millionaires during 2015

The number of homeowners in the country whose property is worth £1m or more...

Average London house price of £931k in 2025 predicted

Rents are set to increase dramatically and buying a house is getting further out of...

Halifax analyses post Star Wars house price performance

Halifax has marked the launch of the next chapter in the Star Wars saga with an...

Scottish £1m property market recovers

Your Move has reported that monthly house price rises doubled in October. Property prices advanced...

London house prices up 7.7% over the year

UK house prices increased by 7.0% in the year to October 2015, up from...

Lowest seasonal dip in house prices for nine years

Rightmove has reported a seasonal 1.1% (-£3,120) dip in the price of property coming...

Kensington and Chelsea dominate most expensive street poll

Victoria Road in Kensington is England's most expensive residential street, with an average house...

Halifax: quarterly house prices up 1.4%

House prices in the three months to November were 1.4% higher than in the...

20% decline in £1.5m+ house sales

Halifax has claimed that the average home buyer is £4,500 better-off under the new...

Halifax expects house prices to continue rise in 2016

Halifax believes the substantial imbalance between supply and demand is likely to persist over...

Over-55 homeowners greatly underestimating property wealth

60% of older homeowners have not had their house valued since they first bought...

Nationwide: very small rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has said that UK house prices edged up by 0.1%...

House prices up 5.6% year-on-year

The Land Registry's October data shows an annual price increase of 5.6% which takes the...

Slowdown in first-time buyer completions

The latest First-time Buyer Tracker from Your Move & Reeds Rains has reported taht...

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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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Home insurance price falls ease as market shows signs of stabilising

Average combined buildings and contents premiums continued to edge lower last month, according to...

Hamptons fundraising partnership with Mind reaches £150,000 milestone

Estate agency Hamptons has raised £150,000 for mental health charity Mind since the partnership...

Scotland and Yorkshire lead UK housing market activity in 2025

Scotland and Yorkshire have emerged as home to the UK’s most active housing markets...

Affordability issues likely to intensify until 2027, lenders warn

Mortgage affordability is expected to become a more pressing issue by 2027, according to...

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