House prices

Generation Rent still have homebuying aspirations

Halifax's 2016 Generation Rent report has found that delays in getting onto the housing ladder...

Land Registry: house prices down 0.5% in March

The Land Registry March house price data has revealed a monthly price fall of 0.5%. The...

Rate of house price growth slows down

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that, while house prices in the UK increased...

Negative equity still widespread around country

Hundreds of thousands of UK homeowners who bought property in 2007 are likely to...

Londoners more likely to sell up

14% of UK homeowners have decided to move while 21% are planning on improving...

Highest quarterly city house price growth for 12 years

City level house price inflation over the first three months of 2016 reached 4.2%,...

Scottish house prices down for first time in eight months

Scottish house prices fell by 1% in February, Your Move has stated. The average price...

London deposit situation “unsustainable”

Research by My Home Move has found that the average deposit paid for a...

House prices boosted by BTL rush

Rightmove has revealed that the average price of property coming to market up in...

Growing pessimism in housing market

Confidence in the UK housing market is at its lowest level in over a...

South East house price growth outstripping London

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

Halifax: rise in annual house price growth

The Halifax has reported that house prices in the first three months of 2016...

Higher property values for equity release referral customers

Customers referred to specialist equity release brokers by other advisers have significantly higher house...

Nationwide reports acceleration in house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that the price of a typical UK home...

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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