House prices

Lack of affordable housing causing disenfranchisement

Research from Gocompare.com Mortgages has revealed the effect that the gap between housing supply...

Property not top for price rises in past 40 years

Online estate agent eMoov.co.uk has matched property prices against a number of other costs...

Media behind Brits overestimating their homes’ value

Media reports of housing bubbles and rising property prices in the last six months...

Possible slowing down of house price inflation

The average price paid for a home in England & Wales last month was...

RICS confirms house price growth slowdown

House price momentum in September slowed to the same level it was 16 months...

Slump in house price growth confidence

The latest Zoopla Housing Market Sentiment Survey has reported that homeowner confidence in the...

New Forest the most expensive National Park

New research from Lloyds Bank suggests homebuyers must pay over £125,000 extra to live...

Nationwide: house prices down in September

The Nationwide has reported that UK house prices fell by 0.2% in September, following...

Continued rise in pensioner property wealth

The property wealth of retired homeowners has grown by over £20.3 billion in the...

London “unhealthily overheated”

A new survey, carried out by United Trust Bank, found that 48% of...

HTB1 customers paying a quarter less

Recent data from Mortgage Advice Bureau shows that the typical Help to Buy equity...

Rates cut by the Mortgage Works

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has reduced rates by up to 0.60 percentage points on...

Haart: London house prices up 2.4% month-on-month

Estate agent Haart has reported that average UK property price growth remains strong, up...

Small rise in Scottish house prices

Average house prices in Scotland rose on a seasonally adjusted basis by £375 in...

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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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