House prices

House prices up 8.7% year-on-year

The Halifax has reported that house prices in the latest three months were 2%...

Small increase in annual house price growth

House prices recorded their 13th successive monthly increase in May, rising by 0.7%, according...

Monthly house price rise of 1.5%

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

Hometrack: house price inflation starting to moderate

According to Hometrack, house prices increased 0.5% in May – 0.1% lower than the...

Strong growth in seaside house prices

The average house price in seaside towns rose by 42% over the past decade,...

Fall in house price inflation

UK house prices increased by 8.0% in the year to March 2014, down from...

Rightmove reports monthly 3.6% rise in house prices

The price of property coming to market this month is up by a national...

Young professionals sweet on SW

South West London holds the biggest allure for aspiring young professionals, with the Wimbledon...

Towry sounds IHT warning

Significant rises in the property market over recent years are pushing many people into...

New record for average house prices

The average price of a home in England & Wales on a monthly...

Nationwide: annual house price growth in double figures

UK house prices increased by 1.2% in April and were 10.9% higher than April...

House prices up 5.6% year-on-year

March house prices were down 0.4% on February 2014, the Land Registry has reported. However,...

“Extraordinary times” for prime London market

The average value of three-bedroom properties in Prime London has risen by over £700...

Average London home will be IHT liable by next year

The average London home is likely to climb to £331,000 next year, surpassing the...

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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...

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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...

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