House prices

A “more prudent” housing market is emerging

The average price paid for a house in England & Wales increased during July...

Halifax: house prices up 10% year-on-year

House prices in the latest three months were 3.6% higher than in the preceding...

Costs of dodgy DIY revealed

10% of homeowners have had a DIY or large scale home improvement project go...

Average deposit grows for fourth successive month

Mortgage Advice Bureau says its latest data show that homebuyers are increasingly taking full...

Slowdown in pace of house price growth

UK house prices recorded their fifteenth successive monthly increase in July, the Nationwide has...

12% house price growth predicted for 2014

CBRE's latest Regional Land report has said that the significant rebound in house prices...

Land Registry: no monthly change in house prices

The June data from Land Registry's House Price Index shows an annual price increase...

Major growth in Olympic house prices

Homeowners in the 14 postal districts in East London closest to the Olympic Park...

Split between buyer and seller confidence

The latest quarterly Halifax Housing Market Confidence tracker suggests confidence in the housing market...

House price growth slowdown continues

House prices increased by 0.1% in July, according to Hometrack's July National Housing Survey....

Average home to be in 3% stamp duty band soon

Haart’s National Housing Market Monitor July 2014 has concluded that at the current rate...

10% rise in viewings in London and South West

Properties in Greater London and the South West are currently receiving the highest number...

Greater proportion of higher-end properties up for sale

The latest figures from Experian’s Property Index show that between April and June 2014,...

Scottish house price growth continues

Average house prices in Scotland rose on a seasonally adjusted basis by £884 in...

Latest POLL

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

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...

PROFILES