House prices

Halifax: house prices treading water

House prices in the three months to August were 0.3% lower than in the...

Surprise rebound in house prices

UK house prices rose by 1.3% in August, the largest monthly increase since January...

Land Registry: monthly rise in house prices

July house prices were up 0.8% on the previous month, according to July Market...

Home affordability at best for 15 years

Mortgage payments for a new borrower are at their lowest as a proportion of...

UK’s most affordable housing is north of the border

Mortgage payments for a new borrower in Scotland are at their lowest as a...

Fall in Welsh house prices

The average house price in Wales was £500 lower in June than in May;...

Olympics hits asking prices

Numbers of new sellers coming to market in August were marginally up on the...

Top flight football reaps housing benefits

It can pay to live near a Premier League football ground, the Halifax has...

Properties selling over six weeks faster

The average UK asking price rose from £228,000 in June 2011 to £232,000 in...

Increase in Scottish house prices

In the three months ending July 2012, Lloyds TSB Scotland's quarterly price index for...

Stand-off between buyers and sellers: Rightmove

49% of people planning to buy in the next year believe current house prices...

National Parks provide house price premium

House prices in the National Parks of England and Wales in 2012 are, according...

House prices fall again

UK house prices fell for the fourth time in five months in July, with...

London buyers move out of the centre

Property price growth in prime central London has been outstripped by non-central prime areas...

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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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