House prices

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,...

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...

COMMENT

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

HLPartnership hires Toby Miles from Legal & General for recruitment role

HLPartnership has appointed Toby Miles as recruitment manager, joining the mortgage and protection network...

Mortgage Brain unveils major CRM Brain update shaped by broker feedback

Mortgage Brain has released its most extensive update to CRM Brain, introducing new functionality...

Consumers put greater trust in B Corp certified financial providers, says Cumberland

More than half of consumers say they would feel more confident in their bank...

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