House prices

1.6m homes to be worth £1m+ by 2030

A new report from Santander Mortgages forecasts that the number of UK properties worth at least...

Brits admit to kerb side decision-making

The majority of house-hunters take just 10 seconds to decide whether they like a property...

The myth of the south-facing garden

Despite estate agents and property experts promoting the benefits of a south facing garden, this...

RICS: buy-to-let investors pushing up house prices

RICS' latest UK Residential Market Survey has reported a rise in new instructions in...

Average house price breaks £290k barrier

House prices in January 2016 rose by an average £688, or 0.2%, to a...

Investec event to analyse London property market

Investec Private Banking is to hold a broker insight event on the evening of 3 March. It...

Halifax reports monthly house price rise of 2.2%

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to January were 2.2%...

£500k+ property prices for 51% of London postcodes

The majority of London neighbourhoods now have property prices beyond half a million pounds,...

Continued confidence in UK property market

The annual Housebuyers Research from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks has revealed that half of...

12.4% annual house price growth for London

The Land Registry has reported an annual price increase of 6.4% in December 2015. This takes...

FTB growth steady despite winter slowdown

There was a tradition fall in the number of first-time buyers between November and...

Mortgage rate rise expectations decline

The latest quarterly Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker has found that confidence in the...

Nationwide reports small monthly rise in house prices

House prices increased by 0.3% in January, the Nationwide Building Society has stated. The...

Dragonfly expands BDM team

Dragonfly Property Finance has added two more external business development managers (BDMs) to its...
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COMMENT

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...

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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...
Building Societies

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...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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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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