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Marginal rise in house prices in November: Nationwide

UK house prices increased by 0.4% in November, according to the Nationwide Building Society. This...

Improvement in outlook for first-time buyers

Latest research suggests that it is now more affordable to get onto the housing...

Scottish house prices down 2.9% year-on-year

According to the latest Scottish House Price Monitor from Lloyds TSB Scotland, in the...

No change for intermediaries: Northern Rock

Following the announcement that Virgin Money is to buy Northern Rock, the latter organisation...

House prices fall 3.2% year-on-year

There was an annual price fall of 3.2% in October, according to data from...

Aldermore scoops NACFB lender award

Aldermore has won the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers' (NACFB) 'Specialist Lender of...

TMW hiking certain rates

The Mortgage Works is making changes to its buy-to-let, let-to-buy and first time landlord...

Omni Capital unveils development finance proposition

Omni Capital has signalled a desire to increase its presence within the development finance...

House prices being pushed up by relocators

Homeowners in the most popular locations to move to in England and Wales have...

The need for intelligence programming

The mortgage industry needs applied artificial intelligence, argues Paul Hunt, managing director of Phoebus...

Prime properties continue to drive the market

Asking prices for prime properties - the top quarter of the market by value...

SearchFlow highlights costs of hidden hazards

21% of UK properties contain a hazard to safety so serious the local authority...

Hometrack expects acceleration in house price falls

House prices have fallen consecutively for the last 16 months, and on a year-on-year...

Promise of faster self-cert and adverse loans

Promise Solutions, the loan master broker, is now offering a new secured loan product...

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The nightmare of UK homebuying needs reform

House sellers will be forced to disclose problems with their homes before sale under plans by the Government to cut costs for buyers and...

Goldilocks and the three bear markets

Are you familiar with C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) or you might know it by its nickname 3I/ATLAS? Whatever you want to call it,  it is currently...

Mark Bogard on policy, politics and the future of advice

When Mark Bogard, Chief Executive of Family Building Society, talks about Britain’s housing policy, he is unsparing in his assessment: short-termism, revolving-door ministers and...

Finding efficiency will keep branches as the beating heart of mutual sector

Whether you speak to customers or building societies, they will tell you just how important branches are – even as financial services and wider...

Mortgages, mutuality, members and making a difference

Anyone working in the mortgage market knows that a key area of our measurement is sales. How many cases we complete, the value of...

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Badenoch pledges to scrap stamp duty in bid to revive homeownership

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to abolish stamp duty on home sales, describing it as...

Santander calls for homebuying reforms as young buyers bear the brunt of broken system

Younger buyers and families are suffering most from England and Wales’s outdated homebuying process,...

Borrower confidence returns as mortgage applications surge, says Stonebridge

Mortgage applications rose sharply in September as borrowers took advantage of falling rates, according...

Wales leads UK for rental yields as returns strengthen in Q3

Wales has extended its lead as the UK’s top-yielding region for landlords, according to...