House prices

Large rise in ‘prime London’ FTB sales

Marsh & Parsons’ latest London Property Monitor has found that while investors continue to...

April pick-up in house price growth, says Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that the price of a typical UK home...

Central London outperformed by large regional cities

Despite Central London recording year on year house price inflation of 3% in the...

Housing market consumer confidence on the rise

Consumer confidence in the outlook for the housing market has rebounded to its highest...

New buyer demand up by 22%

Haart’s National Housing Market Monitor for March 2015 has reported a surge in buyer...

Highest ever asking price of £286,133, says Rightmove

Rightmove has reported that the price of property coming to market has hit a...

It’s the supply, stupid

At the Council of Mortgage Lenders' (CML) annual lunch on Friday 17 April, the...

RICS: trends suggest “a very real housing crisis”

The latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey has revealed that house sales and buyer...

Slowing in house price growth

UK house prices rose by 7.2% in the year to February 2015, down from...

House price rises on Boat Race route analysed

Of all properties overlooking the route of Saturday’s annual Boat Race, homes around Hammersmith...

Halifax: growth in quarterly house prices

House prices in the first quarter of 2015 were 2.6% higher than in the...

Local supermarkets boost house prices

The average house price in areas which offer residents easy reach of a local...

Land Registry: London prices up 13.1% year-on-year

The February Market Trend Data from Land Registry shows an annual price increase of...

Marginal rise in house prices, says Nationwide

UK house prices increased up by 0.1% in March, the Nationwide Building Society has...

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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FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

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