House prices

IFAs expect continued house price rises

New research from Castle Trust reveals that 86.4% of IFAs expect UK house prices...

Scottish house prices rise again

The housing market in Scotland continues its upward trajectory, the latest LSL/Acadata house price...

Oxford is UK’s least affordable city

Rising property prices in the last 12 months mean that cities in southern England...

2.1% quarterly rise in house prices

House prices in the latest three months were 2.1% higher than in the preceding...

27% year-on-year rise in Scottish property transactions

In December 2013 there were 9,050 property transactions in Scotland, according to the latest...

Average UK house price reaches £250k mark

UK house prices increased by 5.5% in December 2013 compared with a year earlier,...

Urban house price growth revealed

PrimeLocation.com has reported that asking prices for properties in urban areas have risen much...

House prices up 5.2% annually

The LSL Property Services/Acadata house price index for January 2014 has revealed that the...

House price growth maintains trend

House prices in the latest three months were 1.9% higher than in the preceding...

Slowdown in house price growth

House prices increased 0.3% in January, according to Hometrack. This, the firm said, represented the...

Annual house price increase of 4.4%, says Land Registry

December house prices were up 1.1% on the previous month, the Land Registry has...

8.8% year-on-year house price growth

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

House prices down by 1.3% in euro area

House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, fell by 1.3% in the...

Large rise in mortgage market confidence

Confidence about the mortgage market’s prospects has significantly increased in the last six months...

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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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