House prices

One hour’s commute can save £450k on house price

Latest research by Lloyds Bank has found that commuters with up to an hour's...

House prices up 5.4% year-on-year

The Land Registry has said that June saw an annual house price increase of 5.4%. This...

Demand at highest level for over a decade

June saw an 11-year high in the number of house hunters registered per branch...

City house price inflation outpacing UK as a whole

House price inflation across the 20 largest cities in the UK was 6.4% in...

Premiership property table revealed

Online estate agent eMoov.co.uk has studied the Premiership 'property table' before the start of the 2015/16 season.  The...

Modest monthly increase in asking prices

July has seen the price of property coming to market hit a new record high...

Rise in house price optimism continues

Confidence in the outlook for house price growth hit its highest level in four...

ONS: house price up 5.7% year-on-year

UK house prices increased by 5.7% in the year to May 2015, up from...

8.3% rise in number of UK property millionaires

The number of homeowners in Britain whose property is worth £1m or more –...

House prices up by 0.9% in the euro area

House prices, as measured by the House Price Index (HPI), rose by 0.9% in...

House price growth at two-year low

House prices in England and Wales continue to climb, albeit at a moderate pace,...

RICS: property set to become ever more unaffordable

The latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey has reported that house price growth increased...

Summer Budget 2015 speech – in full

Mr Deputy Speaker, This is a Budget that puts security first. It’s a Budget that recognises...

Halifax: monthly rise in house prices of 1.7%

The latest Halifax House Price Index has reported that house prices in the three...

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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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...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

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...

The Buckinghamshire launches new discounted rate range

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a new discounted rate mortgage range, giving brokers greater...

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