House prices

Average homeowners making hundreds a week

Online estate agent eMoov.co.uk has calculated that, on average homeowners across the UK made...

Parking spaces carrying a premium price point

Developers are on average charging 5% of a new property’s purchase price for an accompanying...

ONS: 8.3% house price inflation in England

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

0.6% house price rise in December

The rise in house prices in England and Wales has continued, with December 2015...

Buyers taking longer to submit offers

Online estate agent eMoov.co.uk has claimed that property buyers now take 53 minutes to...

Property lowest asset risk over past 20 years

A new property index has concluded that residential property investment in England and Wales...

Halifax: house prices up 1.7%

House prices increased by 1.7% between November and December, the Halifax has reported.  This maintained...

New round of L&G Mortgage Club LIVE events

Legal & General Mortgage Club will host its fifth series of Mortgage Club LIVE...

Travelcard snobbery over as London buyers look further afield

Estate agents Marsh & Parsons have predicted that Tooting and Queen’s Park are the...

Hart should be where the home is

Hart, a town in north east Hampshire, has topped the 2015 Halifax Quality of Life Survey...

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...

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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