House prices

Over 97,000 property sales registered in January

The January 'price paid' data from the Land Registry includes details of over 97,400 residential...

Oxford is UK’s least affordable city

Home affordability, as measured by the ratio between average city house prices and average...

Rightmove: 2% monthly rise in house prices

Rightmove has reported that the annual rate of increase in house prices in February...

Scotland house prices rise by over £400 in December

Your Move has reported that house prices keep edging up in Scotland, increasing 0.2%...

Homeowners believe renovations key to profit

Research from Co-op Insurance has found that 91% of homeowners think their house value has...

Land Registry: average property value now £236,424

The Land Registry's UK House Price Index for December shows an annual price increase of...

Housing market resilience “continues to defy the doubters”

The housing market got off to a strong start in 2017, with prices growing...

One third of homes for sale discounted

31.3% of properties currently for sale in the UK’s major towns and cities have...

Halifax: house price growth rates “robust”

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to January 2017 were...

Brexit to hit London property market the hardest

Investment management business Kames Capital believes regional property markets around the UK currently offer...

Small monthly rise in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that the annual rate of house price growth...

Terraced house sells for £16.2m

The Land Registry has revealed that there were over 87,600 residential and commercial land and property...

Londoners three times more likely to gazump

New research by bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has revealed that property buyers...

Huge rise in house prices near Crossrail stations

Average house prices  near stations along Crossrail have increased dramatically since the South East...
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COMMENT

networks

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...
News

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...
funding

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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