House prices

Yes vote could push up high-end London property prices

Property lawyers Moore Blatch have warned that a vote for Scottish independence on Thursday...

Rare September rise for asking prices

Rightmove has revealed that the asking prices of property coming to market in September...

UK property market “a game of two halves”

Last month, the differential between the housing markets in the South East of England,...

MMR adding 2-4 weeks onto transaction times

House price momentum in August slowed to the same level it was a year...

Latest Halifax price data “good news for buyers”

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months from June to August...

CML unveils pre-election ‘manifesto’

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has published a housing market manifesto aimed at...

House prices up 1.7% since June – Land Registry

The Land Registry's House Price Index for July shows an annual price increase of...

Hometrack: “clear evidence of slowdown”

Hometrack’s August National Housing Survey has revealed that house prices have risen by just...

Nationwide: pick-up in house price growth

The Nationwide has reported that UK house prices edged up by 0.8% in August,...

East London sees top capital property value growth

The total value of residential property in eastern boroughs of Central London has grown...

Large house price premium for top secondaries

Parents in the postal district of the Beaconsfield High School in Buckinghamshire face paying...

Spurs top 2014 Nationwide House Price Premier League

As the new Premier League season starting this weekend, new research by Nationwide Building...

Highest annual growth in four years for Scottish property

Average house prices in Scotland rose on a seasonally adjusted basis by £1,800 in...

Market shifting in favour of buyers

Estate agency firm Haart has said that the number of new homes coming to...

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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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