House prices

Hometrack: chronic lack of supply driving price growth

House prices rose by 0.5% in October, driven by a widening gap between supply...

Small fall in Welsh house prices

The LSL/Acadametrics House Price Index shows that in August the average price paid for...

10% monthly rise in London house prices

Following two consecutive monthly falls in the price of property coming to market, October...

High prices make rural living an impossible dream for many

There is a rural premium in all regions with countryside homes typically commanding a...

House sales 12% higher than last year

House prices hit fresh record high in September, the latest LSL Property Services/Acadametrics House...

House prices up 2% on previous quarter

House prices in the three months to September were 2.0% higher than in the...

Welsh house prices fall but some signs of improvement

The LSL/Acadametrics House Price Index shows that in July the average price of a...

London house prices up 9.7% year-on-year

In the 12 months to July 2013 UK house prices increased by 3.3%, up...

London fuels high price rises of flats

Flats in Britain have increased in value by an average of £394 per month...

RICS’ proposals “would create a postcode lottery”

Charles Haresnape has dismissed RICS' proposals to cap house price rises at 5% per...

RICS calls for cap on price growth

The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee should consider limiting annual house price inflation...

Highest annual rate of house price growth since June 2010

The Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to August were...

August sees modest rise in house prices

UK house prices increased by 0.6% during August, according to the Nationwide Building...

London sees 6.3% increase in house prices

The July data from Land Registry's House Price Index has shown an annual price...

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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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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...

AdviceTech ‘giants’ join AdviserSoftware.com AI comparison service

Three of the UK’s most widely used adviser technology systems – Dynamic Planner, FE...

Somo cuts bridging rates after Bank of England move

Somo has moved quickly to cut rates across its bridging range following the Bank...

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