House prices

December discounts for home buyers available

33% of all UK properties currently on sale have seen their asking price lowered...

Fall in consumer confidence over house prices

The latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker has found that consumer confidence in the...

Majority earned less than the average home over past year

The average house in the UK earned more than the average worker in the...

November house sale completions down year-on-year

LSL Property Services and Acadata have reported that in November, the average price paid...

‘Frustrated middle movers” on the rise

Santander Mortgages has claimed that over four million young homeowners have little hope of...

“Clear relationship” between employment patterns and house price performance

Homeowners in the local authorities that have seen the largest rises in employment have...

Halifax: “better balance” between supply and demand

House prices in period September to November 2014 were 0.7% higher than in the...

Further slowing in annual house price growth

The Nationwide Building Society said UK house prices rose by 0.3% in November, with...

Beaconsfield the most expensive market town

Latest research from Lloyds Bank has established that house prices in market towns are...

Halifax: house prices nationally to rise by 3-5% in 2015

The Halifax has said a further moderation in house price growth is likely next...

Second Steppers biding time for family home

Those living in their first home are increasingly looking to move into bigger four...

London loses its boom town crown

October saw the South East (+10.0%) overtake London (+9.6%) as highest annual house price...

Uplift in sales outside of London

LSL Property Services has revealed that property sales rose by 9% in October. There was...

Rural homes more expensive to buy than urban homes

Latest research from Halifax shows that properties in the countryside properties are continuing to...
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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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