House prices

Most sellers get £13k less than the asking price

Estate agent comparison site, estateagent4me.co.uk, has revealed that on average estate agents achieve a...

IHT changes could cause rush to revalue homes

NFU Mutual has claimed that Gloucestershire, Dorset and Cheshire families may be leading the...

Olympic Park prices grow at double national market rate

Three years on from the London 2012 Olympic Games, the latest research from Lloyds...

Modest decline in first-time buyer numbers

The latest Halifax First-Time Buyer Review has estimated that there were 139,500 first-time buyers...

London on way to reaching new homes targets

The latest London New Homes Monitor from Stirling Ackroyd claims that many new homes have...

Levelling out of property market optimism

Optimism in the property market has slowed down, with fewer homeowners anticipating an increase...

Nationwide: monthly fall in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that UK house prices fell by 0.2% in June. The...

No change in monthly house prices

The Land Registry's Market Trend Data for England and Wales has shown an annual...

Kensington & Chelsea is Britain’s most expensive area

Boroughs in London continue to dominate the country's list of most expensive places for...

Six out of 10 regions set new record price highs

Rightmove has reported a post-election price surge, with new seller asking prices increasing by...

Vendor instructions fall for fourth consecutive month

House prices rose once again in May, and at a quicker pace than in...

Halifax: quarterly house prices up 2%

House prices in the latest three months were 2.0% higher than in the preceding...

Nationwide: house prices up 0.3% in May

The latest House Price Index from the Nationwide Building Society has found that while...

Land Registry: house prices up 0.9% month-on-month

The Land Registry has reported an annual price increase of 5.1% in April, which...

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...

Latest news

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...

Norton Home Loans completes first MAB case after lender panel appointment

Norton Home Loans has completed its first case with Mortgage Advice Bureau since joining...

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