House prices

£41k premium to buy near top secondary schools

Parents need to pay almost £41,000 extra to secure a home close to the...

3.3m over-55s want to downsize

47% of UK adults aged 18 to 54 aspire to live in a three...

£32k premium for attractive catchment areas

26% of parents with children of a school age have either bought or rented a...

Scottish housing market “now back in smoother waters”

House prices in Scotland increased by £4,331 in June, according to Your Move. Its house...

Housing market momentum getting stronger

Connells Survey and Valuation has reported that housing market activity showed rapid annual growth...

RIghtmove: strongest August market since credit crunch

The Seasonal August fall is house prices has been more muted than usual, with...

Strongest July for home sales in eight years

The average price paid for a home in July 2015 was £279,515, a marginal...

RICS: rising house prices not dampened interest

The latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey has fond that growing demand and contracting...

Properties on lanes top property value poll

New research by Barclays Mortgages has found that homes sited on ‘lanes’ are worth over...

Halifax: house prices fall month-on-month

House prices fell by -0.6% between June and July, the Halifax has reported. The average...

Investors extending influence over prime central London

The proportion of 'prime' central London house purchases made by investors has jumped 8%...

Nationwide: rise in annual house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices increased by 0.4% in...

Wannabe first-time buyers compromising on quality

The proportion of tenants expecting to buy by the end of the year has...

Balearics dominate Spanish hotspot list

New research has shown that five of the top 10 most expensive Spanish property...
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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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