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Nationwide says UK house prices fell by 0.2% month on month in August, after taking account of seasonal effects, but the...

There’s speculation that there could be two more base rate cuts announced before the end of the year, following last week’s...

UK house prices increased by 0.3% month on month in July, after taking account of seasonal effects.  This resulted in a slight...

Mortgage approvals on house purchases for June were 59,976 according to the Bank of England - down marginally (0.3%) from 60,134...

New research suggests that last year cash buyers accounted for the highest percentage of market activity seen in the last decade...

Prime London demand climbed in Q2, reversing downward trend seen so far this year The latest Prime London Demand Index by lettings...

Price growth in high-value prime areas has been put on hold given uncertainty surrounding the General Election, according to the latest...

The Nationwide has calculated that house buyers with mortgages are now pay far above the long term average. The lender, in its...

Mortgage-backed housing sales volumes over the last three months are still some 49% below this time last year. A new analysis by...

Overall, the total value of the UK housing market contracted by 21% in the year to March 2024, on the back...

Rightmove reports that the average price of property coming to the market for sale drops by £21 this month to £375,110...

Analysis by an estate agency shows that since the 1980s, house prices have climbed by an average of 5.4% in the...

The latest RICS UK Residential Survey results shows the recent recovery in buyer demand has mellowed slightly, with the market impacted...

Mortgage lending has fallen by -28.6% in the past year, according to a new analysis. Octane Capital analysed gross mortgage lending data*...

Mortgage approvals jumped 7.7% in February to 60,383, and were 40% higher than they were a year ago, new figures from...

There’s no prospect of a rapid recovery for the housing market in 2024 despite some green shoots appearing. The warning comes from...

Latest Bank of England data released in recent days shows net mortgage approvals for house purchases rose from 47,900 in October...

The Nationwide says high interest rates are helping to redefine the housing market in terms of transaction volumes and choices of...

The Bank of England says net mortgage approvals decreased from 54,600 in June to 49,400 in July, although approvals for remortgaging slightly increased...

A new analysis suggests that mortgage approval levels will decline by 11 per cent annually come the end of 2023. Octane Capital...

Legal & General’s new Ignite platform has seen a rise of 53 per cent in one month for broker searches for...

LMS’ Monthly Remortgage Snapshot for April  showed £300 increases for remortgagers last month. Key findings: £300 average monthly payment increase for those who...

The latest market analysis by bridging finance specialists, Apex Bridging, has shown that £4.94bn was lent via bridging loan completions in...

Octane Capital expects the total level of UK mortgage approvals to be 1.570 million by the end of 2022. That is...

House Buyer Bureau reveal that transactions could drop by 17% in spring 2023 next year. The property purchasing specialist claim that the...

A recent survey by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, reveals the current homebuyer and seller sentiment. Many participants revealed feelings that...

Estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester, recently analysed property sales volumes from the start of the pandemic in January 2020 until...

Despite the London market trailing the rest of the UK where the pandemic house price boom is concerned, research from London...

A portion of the market activity accounted for by foreign buyers has been in a slow decline since 2018, Credas Technologies,...

Research by Stipendium reveals that first-time buyers account for one in 10 of all property transactions across England. The property platform analysed...

International buyers are slowly returning to the London property market after three consecutive years of declining market activity, research by debt...

Despite a strong start of the house price growth this year, the latest analysis from specialist property lending experts, Octane Capital,...

Despite a more lethargic pandemic property market performance, a recent study by debt advisory specialists, Henry Dannell, has analysed sold price...

Introducer Today returns with a bumper mortgage roundup, this time featuring the latest industry views on mortgage approvals, new and extended...

Recent property market analysis by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, has found that Russian residential property purchases contributed...

London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, recently revealed which boroughs in the capital have the highest levels of homebuyer...

The latest Nationwide house price index, released yesterday morning, reveals that January has seen the strongest start to the year since...

Contemporary estate agent, Nested, recently carried out research about estate agent business expansion in 2022. The research involved a survey with 961 estate agents...

Legal & General has unveiled the top search trends that have driven activity in the market over the past three years,...

Market analysis has revealed where house price growth could stutter should monthly interest payments start to climb as a result of...

A study by Henry Dannell, a specialist mortgage broker, has discovered how London remains the nation’s million-pound property market hotspot despite a...

Throughout the pandemic, people across Britain have purchased new homes. Changes in lifestyle trends and schemes that make purchasing a new...

New research by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent, has revealed how much money the UK government lost as a result...

Residential transactions across England and Wales fell by 41% in 2020 when compared to the previous year despite a boost in...

April saw significant purchasing and remortgaging activity following forecasts suggesting an interest rate rise in May, according to the Mortgage Advice...

Annual house price growth slowed in October, according to the latest Nationwide House Price Index. It fell from 5.3% in September...

First-time buyer activity jumped in November with a 31% year-on-year rise in valuations. This was slightly higher than the increasing overall housing...

The property market continued to tick over in September with activity up 5.4% on the same month last year. There were 106,030...

UK housing market activity climbed to its highest level for six months in September. The total number of property valuations was also the...

Residential housing market activity defied the summer slowdown to post strong growth in August. The latest HMRC Property Transactions figures for August 2015...