House prices

House price optimism back on the rise

The Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker saw house price optimism rebound last month as...

Annual house price growth at slowest rate for a year

UK house prices increased by 8.4% in the year to January 2015, down from...

Earnings-house price divide on the rise

Over the past two years average house prices have increased by more than the...

House prices £34k above pre-crunch high

The average price paid for a home in England & Wales was £273,528 in...

Majority ignorant over IHT threshold

62% of UK adults aged over 45 with assets above the individual inheritance tax...

Halifax: annual house price growth continues to ease

House prices in the latest three months were 2.6% higher than in the previous...

0.1% fall in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society's house price index for February reported that there was a...

Land Registry: prices up 6.7% year-on-year

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

Negotiation power returns to homebuyers

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) January Housing Market Report has revealed that...

Easing in house price optimism

The latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker as found that house price optimism fell...

Three-year high in housing market confidence

Latest research from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks suggests confidence in the UK property market has...

House price growth moving towards Liverpool, Sheffield & Glasgow

Hometrack has revealed in its latest UK Cities House Price Index that over the...

North vs south pattern to housing market recovery

Property sales in the first 10 months of 2014 were 21% higher than in the...

Rightmove: lowest ever stock of quality property for sale

Rightmove has recorded its busiest ever month for traffic and leads to agents. This...
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COMMENT

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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Regulation

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...
First-time buyers

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...
Buy-to-let

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...
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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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