House prices

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...

Brits stay optimistic about house price growth

More Britons believe house prices to rise than fall over the next year, according...

Homeowners optimistic despite poor economic conditions

63% of homeowners expect house prices to rise between now and the end of...

2.3% year-on-year rise in house prices: ONS

In the 12 months to May 2012 UK house prices increased by 2.3% continuing...
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COMMENT

Comment

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...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

Five things brokers across the country are telling me right now

The thing I’ve always enjoyed most about working in the specialist mortgage market is the people. I’m lucky that a big part of my job...

Latest news

News

Clydesdale Bank raises selected residential and buy-to-let rates

Clydesdale Bank is increasing a number of residential and buy-to-let product transfer rates from...
Loans

24-hour secured loan case underlines growing use of specialist finance

A secured loan completed within 24 hours is being cited as a sign of...
News

Virgin Money raises selected mortgage rates by up to 75bps

Virgin Money is increasing selected purchase, remortgage, buy-to-let and product transfer rates from Thursday...
News

Property sector must embrace long-term reform to withstand global shocks, says OPDA

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has called on the government to adopt a...

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