UK house prices may be broadly static but sales volumes are up 12% year on year according to Zoopla data out...
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29 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark boss: 'Focus on local rather than national house price reports'](/upload/images/shutterstock_522207118.jpg)
Buyers and sellers should focus on their own local market rather than national house price indices, the chief executive of Properytmark...
07 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Fine & Country: Why the housing market is heading for soft landing](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House-pounds_400x310.png)
A strong labour market, growing consumer confidence and an increasing acceptance of a higher mortgage rate environment will support the housing...
13 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Portal boss: Property market remains active for ‘realistic’ sellers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/AgentOnline-400x310.png)
The property market is still active for ‘realistic’ sellers and serious buyers, OnTheMarket (OTM’s) claims. Jason Tebb, chief executive of the portal,...
18 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents have nothing to fear from market slowdown - claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/House-Sky-Hands-400x310.jpg)
Agents have nothing to fear from a market slowdown, an industry executive claims. Nick Ball, head of sales and client services at...
27 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property sales market slumps to slowest June for nine years - HMRC](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyChain-1-400x310.jpg)
House price indices may be reporting record rises but sales seem to be slowing. The latest HMRC property transactions data for June...
22 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Major agent revises house price forecasts upwards amid slower stock recovery](/upload/images/Logos/Knight-Frank-logo400x310.png)
Knight Frank has revised its house price forecasts upwards due to continually low levels of residential stock on the market. The agent...
27 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Leading agent signals the end for double digit house price growth](/upload/images/library/houseprices1.png)
Knight Frank has issued a stark warning that house price growth is set to slow. House price indices from lenders such as...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket takes on Rightmove and Zoopla with new market survey](/img/default/eat.png)
OnTheMarket, which until now has lagged behind the leading two portals in terms of consumer-facing housing market information, has today launched...
13 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Crystal Balls? House price movements can be forecast - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
A global financial software and analytics firm says it’s launching a new PropTech tool which promises in the near future to...
27 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Housing boom may outlast stamp duty holiday, says Bank chief](/img/default/eat.png)
The Bank of England’s deputy governor says it’s possible that the current housing market boom may continue even after the end...
21 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Prices up 10% a year? It could happen next month says agency chief](/img/default/eat.png)
A market analysis by Fine & Country suggests that annual house price inflation could hit 10 per cent next month. Nicky Stevenson,...
10 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks’ biggest critic warns over housing market uncertainty](/img/default/eat.png)
The chief executive of a property information platform says now is a “dangerous time” to buy or sell homes because of...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![EXCLUSIVE - Agents' Cash Crisis: reduced income until autumn](/img/default/eat.png)
The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...
14 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents stay positive as house prices continue to creep up](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices increased 0.5 per cent in November, which was the strongest monthly rise since April according to the Nationwide. However, annual...
29 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Market news: Three bedroom homes sell quickest this autumn](/img/default/eat.png)
New research shows that three bedroom homes are the quickest selling property type this autumn. After a series of sluggish house price...
17 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Index claims house prices rose six per cent in ONE month alone](/img/default/eat.png)
A new house price index that in June predicted big house price rises over the summer has now repeated its claim,...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Pundit Henry Pryor in scathing attack on house price indices](/img/default/eat.png)
Outspoken property commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has made a scathing attack on some of the main house price indices. In...
06 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Boost for housing market with surge in number of first time buyers](/img/default/eat.png)
The switchback of house price indices and other data on the state of the market has taken a turn for the...
15 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![New house price index claims superiority over rivals - even Land Registry](/img/default/eat.png)
Investment consultancy London Central Portfolio has launched a new index which it claims uses “the most comprehensive data available” to assess...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Halifax and Nationwide price indices slammed as out of date by rival](/img/default/eat.png)
House price indices provided each month by Halifax and the Nationwide have been branded as “misguiding” and “out of date” and...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: huge differences in data used to compile house price indices](/img/default/eat.png)
HM Land Registry has revealed how major house price indices are compiled - showing the huge variation in transactions behind the headline figures. The critique,...
19 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Asking prices up for fifth month in a row says Rightmove](/img/default/eat.png)
Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove. Asking prices rose 2.0...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Down-valuations and asking price cuts spreading, warns broker](/img/default/eat.png)
The director of a respected mortgage broker is warning that market sentiment is changing with more down-valuations from surveyors and some...
09 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![House price growth slows 'as consumer prepare for cash squeeze'](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices recorded their second consecutive monthly fall in April, while the annual rate of growth slowed to 2.6 per cent,...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Annual house price inflation at its lowest for four years](/img/default/eat.png)
Average house prices across the UK in the three months to March were only 0.1 per cent higher than in the...
10 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![House prices dip for the first time in two years - Nationwide](/img/default/eat.png)
Average house prices across the UK have fallen slightly according to the Nationwide, the first drop of any kind since June...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![House prices cool as Halifax warns 2017 will see a slowdown](/img/default/eat.png)
Annual growth in house prices slowed in January - a taste of things to come in 2017 according to the house...
08 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![House price growth slows despite big London and south east rises](/img/default/eat.png)
The pace of annual house price growth slowed to 5.3 per cent in September from 5.6 per cent in August according...
03 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![What has been the Brexit impact on the housing market so far?](/img/default/eat.png)
The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...
05 August 2016
From: Features
![House prices rising faster than expected 'but may not yet reflect Brexit'](/img/default/eat.png)
The Nationwide says house prices rose at their fastest annual rate for four months in July, but that performance may not...
29 July 2016
From: Breaking News
20 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Index claims London and some regions showing first Brexit price falls](/img/default/eat.png)
London house prices have fallen by 1.1 per cent in the past month - mostly since the Brexit vote on June...
13 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![New ‘official’ UK House Price Index launched - prices up 8.2% annually](/img/default/eat.png)
The first new ‘official’ UK House Price Index, released this morning, shows an annual price increase of 8.2 per cent which takes...
14 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Confirmed - new official UK House Price Index launching next week](/img/default/eat.png)
The government is launching the new official UK House Price Index - to be known in short-form as the UK HPI...
09 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Annual house price inflation dips to 7.6% according to government figures](/img/default/eat.png)
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...
13 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![New 'official, single' house price index previewed ... and compared to others](/img/default/eat.png)
The government's Office for National Statitsics has confirmed that a new single, official house price index is to be launched in...
31 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Preparations mount for summer launch of single official price index](/img/default/eat.png)
The arrival of a single official house price index comes one step closer later this month with a so-called ‘user event’...
10 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Modest acceleration in house price growth likely, says Nationwide](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing market appreciation continued at 4.4 per cent in the year to late January, continuing an eight month run of price...
28 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![9.5% price rise in 2015 takes average home to over £208,000 says Halifax](/img/default/eat.png)
Prices in the three months to the end of 2015 were 9.5 per cent higher than in the same three month...
08 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Year ends with high price growth almost everywhere says Nationwide](/img/default/eat.png)
House prices ended the year with strong growth of 0.8 per cent in the month of December according to the building...
31 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government's single 'official' house price index to be launched by June](/img/default/eat.png)
A single definitive ‘official’ government house price index is to be launched by June. During the summer the Office for National Statistics...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![House prices rising 9% in a year, but pace of growth slowing](/img/default/eat.png)
The Halifax says UK-wide house prices are rising on average by nine per cent per year, but the rate of growth...
09 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Halifax forecast latest to predict subdued 2016 housing market](/img/default/eat.png)
Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, the Halifax, says the housing market will slow next year with average price rises of four to...
07 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Britain's least affordable city - it was Oxford but now we can reveal it's...](/img/default/eat.png)
If you think house price indices are confusing, just look at affordability indices. As recently as Monday BBC TV news reported that,...