House prices

Second Steppers biding time for family home

Those living in their first home are increasingly looking to move into bigger four...

London loses its boom town crown

October saw the South East (+10.0%) overtake London (+9.6%) as highest annual house price...

Uplift in sales outside of London

LSL Property Services has revealed that property sales rose by 9% in October. There was...

Rural homes more expensive to buy than urban homes

Latest research from Halifax shows that properties in the countryside properties are continuing to...

Halifax: smallest house price rise since December 2012

The latest house price index from Halifax found that house prices in the three-month...

Average asking prices stabilise

The third quarter of the year saw the property market stabilise as the average...

Record number of £1m+ properties

Lloyds Bank has revealed that the number of property sales worth at least a...

Nationwide: softening in annual house price growth continues

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices rose by 0.5% in...

Land Registry: house prices fell in September

The Land Registry has reported an annual price increase of 7.2% in September, which...

Hometrack unveils Cities House Price Index

House prices in London and Cambridge have increased by over £60,000 and £53,000 respectively...

London has room to meet house building requirements

London could see up to 570,000 new homes being built over the next decade,...

Prime London house price growth plateaus

Prime house prices in London will remain stable until the end of the year,...

Haart: small slowdown in house price growth

Estate agency group Haart has reported that the average house price in the UK...

ONS: rate of house price inflation unchanged

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) House Price Index to August 20014 has...

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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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