House prices

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...

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...
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COMMENT

Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

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Appointments

The West Brom promotes Gareth Madeley to chief customer officer

West Brom Building Society has appointed Gareth Madeley as its new chief customer officer,...
MIMHC

Industry leaders unite behind MIMHC Lunch

HSBC UK, Virgin Money, Nottingham Building Society, Landbay and top broker firms Mortgage Advice...
News

Santander raises foreign national mortgage lending to 90% LTV

Santander UK has expanded its foreign national mortgage policy by increasing the maximum loan-to-value...
Buy-to-let

Keystone passes £2bn in securitisation issuance with sixth Hops Hill deal

Keystone Property Finance has completed its sixth securitisation, taking total issuance under its Hops...

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