House prices

Rightmove: indications of higher house prices in 2016

Rightmove has reported the smallest drop since 2011 in new seller asking prices (-1.3%)...

Annual rate of house price growth climbing again

There has been a turnabout in the annual rate of house price growth in...

Value of UK housing stock tops £5tn

The value of UK's private housing stock in August 2015 is estimated at £5.1 trillion,...

Halifax: 2.8% quarterly rise in house prices

The Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to October were...

Total equity released in past three months rose 19%

Key Retirement has revealed that pensioners are boosting their retirement income by an average...

Majority fear Brexit will hit property prices

Research has suggested that 55% of British homeowners think exiting the European Union will...

Countryside living premium continues

Property prices in the countryside are, on average, £43,490 (22%) higher than in urban...

Rent rises hitting West Midlands the hardest

Those tenants who live in the West Midlands are suffering the most from rent...

Nationwide: slight increase in annual house price growth rate

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices increased by 0.6% in...

Land Registry: 1% monthly house price rise

The Land Registry has reported an annual price increase of 5.3% for September. This...

Sharp fall in multi-million pound homes

The number of property sales worth at least a million pounds has fallen in...

Continued rise in homeowner market confidence

The latest Zoopla Housing Market Sentiment Survey has reported that confidence homeowners have in...

Landbay: London a “victim of its own success”

Rents for one bedroom flats average over £1,000 a month in 73% of London...

Brighton tops poll of unaffordable towns for property

Local people are being priced out of their towns, as average wage earners could...
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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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