House prices

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...

House prices in National Parks up by £58k in 10 years

House prices in the National Parks of England and Wales in 2015 are, on...

House price growth accelerates in large regional cities

Hometrack’s UK Cities House Price Index has reported annual house price growth of 9.4% per...

Momentum rebuilds in Scotland’s property market

House prices in Scotland have accelerated 1.4% annually, more than double 0.6% annual growth...

Proximity price premiums for World Heritage Sites

Homes located near to a World Heritage Site are worth 27% more than the...
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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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