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Buyers and sellers should focus on their own local market rather than national house price indices, the chief executive of Properytmark...

A strong labour market, growing consumer confidence and an increasing acceptance of a higher mortgage rate environment will support the housing...

The property market is still active for ‘realistic’ sellers and serious buyers, OnTheMarket (OTM’s) claims. Jason Tebb, chief executive of the portal,...

Agents have nothing to fear from a market slowdown, an industry executive claims. Nick Ball, head of sales and client services at...

House price indices may be reporting record rises but sales seem to be slowing. The latest HMRC property transactions data for June...

Knight Frank has revised its house price forecasts upwards due to continually low levels of residential stock on the market. The agent...

Knight Frank has issued a stark warning that house price growth is set to slow. House price indices from lenders such as...

OnTheMarket, which until now has lagged behind the leading two portals in terms of consumer-facing housing market information, has today launched...

A global financial software and analytics firm says it’s launching a new PropTech tool which promises in the near future to...

The Bank of England’s deputy governor says it’s possible that the current housing market boom may continue even after the end...

A market analysis by Fine & Country suggests that annual house price inflation could hit 10 per cent next month. Nicky Stevenson,...

The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

House prices increased 0.5 per cent in November, which was the strongest monthly rise since April according to the Nationwide.  However, annual...

New research shows that three bedroom homes are the quickest selling property type this autumn. After a series of sluggish house price...

A new house price index that in June predicted big house price rises over the summer has now repeated its claim,...

Outspoken property commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has made a scathing attack on some of the main house price indices. In...

The switchback of house price indices and other data on the state of the market has taken a turn for the...

Investment consultancy London Central Portfolio has launched a new index which it claims uses “the most comprehensive data available” to assess...

House price indices provided each month by Halifax and the Nationwide have been branded as “misguiding” and “out of date” and...

HM Land Registry has revealed how major house price indices are compiled - showing the huge variation in transactions behind the headline figures. The critique,...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove.  Asking prices rose 2.0...

The director of a respected mortgage broker is warning that market sentiment is changing with more down-valuations from surveyors and some...

House prices recorded their second consecutive monthly fall in April, while the annual rate of growth slowed to 2.6 per cent,...

Average house prices across the UK in the three months to March were only 0.1 per cent higher than in the...

Average house prices across the UK have fallen slightly according to the Nationwide, the first drop of any kind since June...

Annual growth in house prices slowed in January - a taste of things to come in 2017 according to the house...

The pace of annual house price growth slowed to 5.3 per cent in September from 5.6 per cent in August according...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

The Nationwide says house prices rose at their fastest annual rate for four months in July, but that performance may not...

The price of an average house or flat in the UK rose by £16,000 in the year to May after another...

London house prices have fallen by 1.1 per cent in the past month - mostly since the Brexit vote on June...

The first new ‘official’ UK House Price Index, released this morning, shows an annual price increase of 8.2 per cent which takes...

The government is launching the new official UK House Price Index - to be known in short-form as the UK HPI...

House prices rose by 7.6 per cent in the year to February, according to the government’s Office for National Statistics.  This is a...

The government's Office for National Statitsics has confirmed that a new single, official house price index is to be launched in...

The arrival of a single official house price index comes one step closer later this month with a so-called ‘user event’...

Housing market appreciation continued at 4.4 per cent in the year to late January, continuing an eight month run of price...

Prices in the three months to the end of 2015 were 9.5 per cent higher than in the same three month...

House prices ended the year with strong growth of 0.8 per cent in the month of December according to the building...

A single definitive ‘official’ government house price index is to be launched by June. During the summer the Office for National Statistics...

The Halifax says UK-wide house prices are rising on average by nine per cent per year, but the rate of growth...

Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, the Halifax, says the housing market will slow next year with average price rises of four to...

If you think house price indices are confusing, just look at affordability indices. As recently as Monday BBC TV news reported that,...

House prices fell slightly in July, in the first drop for six months according to the Halifax. It says prices dipped 0.6...