House prices

London & South East constraining house price growth

December saw the average house price reach £278,997, according to the latest house price...

Government reveals latest Help to Buy stats

Over 73,000 homes have been bought under the government’s Help to Buy schemes. Latest figures...

Halifax: weakening in house price growth continues

House prices in the three months to December were 7.8% higher than in the...

RICS outlines its market predictions for 2015

House prices in the UK will see an average increase of 3% over the...

December discounts for home buyers available

33% of all UK properties currently on sale have seen their asking price lowered...

Fall in consumer confidence over house prices

The latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker has found that consumer confidence in the...

Majority earned less than the average home over past year

The average house in the UK earned more than the average worker in the...

November house sale completions down year-on-year

LSL Property Services and Acadata have reported that in November, the average price paid...

‘Frustrated middle movers” on the rise

Santander Mortgages has claimed that over four million young homeowners have little hope of...

“Clear relationship” between employment patterns and house price performance

Homeowners in the local authorities that have seen the largest rises in employment have...

Halifax: “better balance” between supply and demand

House prices in period September to November 2014 were 0.7% higher than in the...

Further slowing in annual house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society said UK house prices rose by 0.3% in November, with...

Beaconsfield the most expensive market town

Latest research from Lloyds Bank has established that house prices in market towns are...

Halifax: house prices nationally to rise by 3-5% in 2015

The Halifax has said a further moderation in house price growth is likely next...

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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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