News & insights - House prices

Political uncertainty may have led to many property buyers and sellers sitting tight in May, according to the latest UK Residential Market Survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyers (RICS)

May is the 99th month that the Bank of England has kept its base rate at or below 0.50%. Around 2.5 million people have bought their first property since then, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, and will not yet have witnessed base rate moving in the opposite direction.

House prices fell by 0.4% in April, according to Nationwide Building Society’s latest House Price Index, the second consecutive month that prices have dropped.

Around 1 in 5 people in the UK is either self-employed or on a fixed or zero hour contract, revealed the Telegraph this weekend.

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New research from the National Association of Estate Agents suggests that almost one in four people can’t get a mortgage due to stricter lending criteria from mortgage lenders.

In its latest housing market survey, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has noted that "Buyer interest is starting to gain real momentum"

<em>The Halifax House Price Index for January has caused a stir, as it reported prices up 1.9% on December. However it warned that one month's figures

<p align="justify">There were mixed reviews on the recent rate cuts in the weekend money pages, alongside some topical features on lender’s profits an

The Halifax House Price Index for July showed a drop of 1.7%, mirroring the findings of the Nationwide Index last week.

The cost of borrowing was still high on the agenda in mortgage-related articles this weekend. The Financial Times, Sunday Times and Independent on Sun

According to the <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Council of Mortgage Lenders</span></strong> (CML), remortgaging accounted for 42% of mortgage l

<span class="subhead">The downward trend in house prices shows no sign of losing pace as both Halifax and Nationwide recently reported similar reducti

According to the Times and the Daily Express, negative equity looms for thousands of hard-pressed borrowers. Reportedly, 23,300 people took on 100 per

A broad range of mortgage-related articles featured in the weekend papers and topics ranged from green mortgages to buy-to-let student properties. Th

<span class="subhead">In their latest monthly surveys, both Halifax and Nationwide reported that house prices continued to fall during April. </span>

While both Halifax and Nationwide have confirmed further falls in house prices for March, their reports aren’t as gloomy as you might imagine. Nation

Falling house prices and the need for a base rate cut were key topics in the midweek press and moved away from the financial supplements and on to hea

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has reported a positive start to the year in their January housing market survey, indicating renewed