House prices

Three-year high in housing market confidence

Latest research from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks suggests confidence in the UK property market has...

House price growth moving towards Liverpool, Sheffield & Glasgow

Hometrack has revealed in its latest UK Cities House Price Index that over the...

North vs south pattern to housing market recovery

Property sales in the first 10 months of 2014 were 21% higher than in the...

Rightmove: lowest ever stock of quality property for sale

Rightmove has recorded its busiest ever month for traffic and leads to agents. This...

Smallest annual house price growth for 10 months

In January 2015, the average price paid for a home in England & Wales...

RICS: cooling market in England & Wales continues

Scotland and Northern Ireland’s housing market outperformed the rest of the UK in January,...

Bounce back in house price growth

House prices in last three months were 1.9% higher than in the previous three...

Homeowner confidence not dented by slowdown

Property owners are still expecting home price values to climb a further 7% on...

Land Registry sees house price growth slowing

December saw an annual price increase of 7.0% which takes the average property value...

Annual house price growth continues to moderate

UK house prices rose by 0.3% in January, the Nationwide Building Society has reported....

Convergence in city level house price growth

UK house prices increased by 0.4% in December to 8.3% year-on-year (4.5% in 2013)...

Top property price growth in ‘gateway to the south’

Property prices in the London area of Balham outgrew the rest of the capital...

Widening divide between London and rest of the country

The latest annual London Factor report from Halifax has shown that the London economy...

ONS: 10% year-on-year growth in UK house prices

UK house prices increased by 10.0% in the year to November 2014, down from...

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FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

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Affordability issues likely to intensify until 2027, lenders warn

Mortgage affordability is expected to become a more pressing issue by 2027, according to...

Rising house prices ‘pay for Christmas’ for most homeowners

Most UK homeowners have seen their property rise in value by more than the...

IMLA backs FCA roadmap on mortgage rule review

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has described the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) Feedback...

Borrowers moved early as rate cut expectations built, Twenty7tec data shows

Mortgage search activity reached its highest level of the month on 9 December, nine...

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