House prices

House prices £34k above pre-crunch high

The average price paid for a home in England & Wales was £273,528 in...

Majority ignorant over IHT threshold

62% of UK adults aged over 45 with assets above the individual inheritance tax...

Halifax: annual house price growth continues to ease

House prices in the latest three months were 2.6% higher than in the previous...

0.1% fall in house prices

The Nationwide Building Society's house price index for February reported that there was a...

Land Registry: prices up 6.7% year-on-year

The January Market Trend Data from Land Registry shows an annual price increase of...

Negotiation power returns to homebuyers

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) January Housing Market Report has revealed that...

Easing in house price optimism

The latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker as found that house price optimism fell...

Three-year high in housing market confidence

Latest research from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks suggests confidence in the UK property market has...

House price growth moving towards Liverpool, Sheffield & Glasgow

Hometrack has revealed in its latest UK Cities House Price Index that over the...

North vs south pattern to housing market recovery

Property sales in the first 10 months of 2014 were 21% higher than in the...

Rightmove: lowest ever stock of quality property for sale

Rightmove has recorded its busiest ever month for traffic and leads to agents. This...

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...

COMMENT

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

Latest news

The West Brom promotes Gareth Madeley to chief customer officer

West Brom Building Society has appointed Gareth Madeley as its new chief customer officer,...

Industry leaders unite behind MIMHC Lunch

HSBC UK, Virgin Money, Nottingham Building Society, Landbay and top broker firms Mortgage Advice...

Santander raises foreign national mortgage lending to 90% LTV

Santander UK has expanded its foreign national mortgage policy by increasing the maximum loan-to-value...

Keystone passes £2bn in securitisation issuance with sixth Hops Hill deal

Keystone Property Finance has completed its sixth securitisation, taking total issuance under its Hops...

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