House prices

Smallest annual house price growth for 10 months

In January 2015, the average price paid for a home in England & Wales...

RICS: cooling market in England & Wales continues

Scotland and Northern Ireland’s housing market outperformed the rest of the UK in January,...

Bounce back in house price growth

House prices in last three months were 1.9% higher than in the previous three...

Homeowner confidence not dented by slowdown

Property owners are still expecting home price values to climb a further 7% on...

Land Registry sees house price growth slowing

December saw an annual price increase of 7.0% which takes the average property value...

Annual house price growth continues to moderate

UK house prices rose by 0.3% in January, the Nationwide Building Society has reported....

Convergence in city level house price growth

UK house prices increased by 0.4% in December to 8.3% year-on-year (4.5% in 2013)...

Top property price growth in ‘gateway to the south’

Property prices in the London area of Balham outgrew the rest of the capital...

Widening divide between London and rest of the country

The latest annual London Factor report from Halifax has shown that the London economy...

ONS: 10% year-on-year growth in UK house prices

UK house prices increased by 10.0% in the year to November 2014, down from...

London & South East constraining house price growth

December saw the average house price reach £278,997, according to the latest house price...

Government reveals latest Help to Buy stats

Over 73,000 homes have been bought under the government’s Help to Buy schemes. Latest figures...

Halifax: weakening in house price growth continues

House prices in the three months to December were 7.8% higher than in the...

RICS outlines its market predictions for 2015

House prices in the UK will see an average increase of 3% over the...
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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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