House prices

Halifax: smallest house price rise since December 2012

The latest house price index from Halifax found that house prices in the three-month...

Average asking prices stabilise

The third quarter of the year saw the property market stabilise as the average...

Record number of £1m+ properties

Lloyds Bank has revealed that the number of property sales worth at least a...

Nationwide: softening in annual house price growth continues

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices rose by 0.5% in...

Land Registry: house prices fell in September

The Land Registry has reported an annual price increase of 7.2% in September, which...

Hometrack unveils Cities House Price Index

House prices in London and Cambridge have increased by over £60,000 and £53,000 respectively...

London has room to meet house building requirements

London could see up to 570,000 new homes being built over the next decade,...

Prime London house price growth plateaus

Prime house prices in London will remain stable until the end of the year,...

Haart: small slowdown in house price growth

Estate agency group Haart has reported that the average house price in the UK...

ONS: rate of house price inflation unchanged

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) House Price Index to August 20014 has...

Lack of affordable housing causing disenfranchisement

Research from Gocompare.com Mortgages has revealed the effect that the gap between housing supply...

Property not top for price rises in past 40 years

Online estate agent eMoov.co.uk has matched property prices against a number of other costs...

Media behind Brits overestimating their homes’ value

Media reports of housing bubbles and rising property prices in the last six months...

Possible slowing down of house price inflation

The average price paid for a home in England & Wales last month was...
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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...
News

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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