House prices

Average house prices doubles in Shetland Islands

The Shetland Islands and the Western Isles are two of the UK’s top performing...

Average time on market at lowest level since June 2007

House prices increased 0.6% in April as regional housing markets picked up momentum in...

£475k now average London house price, claims estate agency

London property prices have risen 29.5% annually, to an average of £473,500, estate agent...

Help to Buy behind Scottish housing market recovery

The housing market in Scotland continues to see prices rise, according to the latest...

Open house season for haart

Estate agent haart claims it will be selling over 300 homes by the Open...

London sees 17% annual house price growth

UK house prices increased by 9.1% in the year to February 2014, up from...

House prices fall in Europe

House prices fell by 1.4% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the...

Average house prices “have never been higher”

On a monthly basis, the average price of a home in England & Wales...

Halifax reports monthly fall in house prices

House prices fell by -1.1% in March, the Halifax has reported. This was only...

9.5% year-on-year rise in UK house prices

UK house prices increased by 0.4% in March and were 9.5% higher than March...

Gap between supply and demand continues to expand

House prices increased by 0.6% in March with the growth in demand outstripping supply,...

Land Registry: London house prices up 14% in 12 months

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

House price inflation slows for new builds

New analysis from Mortgage Advice Bureau shows that annual growth of new build...

ONS: house prices up nearly 7% on January 2013

UK house prices increased by 6.8% in January 2014 compared with a year earlier,...

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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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