House prices

House prices up 0.3% month-on-month

House prices were up 0.3% in March, the highest growth since March 2010, according...

Scottish city affordability improves

Home affordability for city dwellers in Scotland has improved by nearly a quarter since...

Cost of neighbours established

88% of estate agents think a well maintained home next door will increase the...

0.7% rise in Scottish house prices

The latest LSL/Acadametrics House Price Index has reported an increase of £1,028, or 0.7%...

Urban asking prices rise but fall in the country

The average asking price of properties for sale in urban areas in England is...

Still tough for ‘second steppers’

The third annual Second Steppers report from Lloyds TSB indicates that little has improved...

Average house price only 1% off its previous peak

The average price paid for a house in February rose by £1,355 (0.6%) from...

Rising economic confidence for homeowners

Increased optimism over house prices in February spurred economic confidence to its highest level...

January property prices up 1%

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

Scottish market remains quiet

In the three months ending January 2013, the quarterly price index for the average...

Welsh house prices continue to stand still

December saw a fall of £597 or -0.4% in the average price of a...

London prices continue to rise

This month has proved to be another record for London, with new sellers coming...

0.2% rise in house prices

The average price paid for a house in December was £480 more, or 0.2%...

Nationwide reports rise in house prices

UK house prices increased by 0.5% in January, but was unchanged compared with January...

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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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