House prices

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...

Homeowner confidence not dented by slowdown

Property owners are still expecting home price values to climb a further 7% on...

Land Registry sees house price growth slowing

December saw an annual price increase of 7.0% which takes the average property value...

Annual house price growth continues to moderate

UK house prices rose by 0.3% in January, the Nationwide Building Society has reported....

COMMENT

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Latest news

PMS reports double-digit growth in mortgages and protection

PMS Mortgage Club says it is on course for its strongest performance in five...

Property firms urged to engage early with digital home-moving reforms

Property professionals have been urged to start testing digital home-moving processes now rather than...

DPMSG launches consumer guide to Smart Property Data

The Digital Property Market Steering Group has launched a consumer-focused video explaining how Smart...

Together joins Equity Release Council as later life market broadens

Together has become a member of the Equity Release Council as the specialist lender...

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