House prices

Brits more confident about house price rises

More Britons expect house prices to rise than fall over the coming 12 months,...

Welsh house prices fall for fourth consecutive month

The average price of a house in Wales in August was £151,004, according to...

1.5% rise in value of average UK home in past year

The value of the average home in Britain has risen by £3,373 (1.5%) over...

Most expensive cities revealed

 Properties in the South East are amongst the most expensive in the UK per...

House prices continue to fall

The latest LSL/Acadametrics England and Wales House Price Index has revealed a marginal fall...

0.4% monthly fall in house prices

House prices in the three months to September were 0.5% lower than in the...

Third quarter house price falls for most regions

Average UK house prices fell by 0.5% in the third quarter, after allowing for...

Property prices are lower since 2007

The value of Britain's detached properties has increased by an average of £642 per...

Rural Scotland becoming less affordable

Latest research from Bank of Scotland shows that house prices in rural Scotland have...

Scottish FTBs bucking UK trend

In July 2012, the average price paid for a house in Scotland fell by...

Decline in the cost of buying a home

The cost of buying a home is now almost a fifth lower than renting,...

Slight rise in asking prices

The latest LSL Acad England & Wales House Price Index shows a marginal rise...

Fall in prime property values

Prices of the UK's most expensive homes have fallen for the second month in...

People looking to improve rather than move

Homeowners are increasingly choosing to improve their existing property rather than move home, according...

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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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