House prices

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...

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...
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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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