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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...

Homeowners with mortgages have seen the highest increase in household costs over recent months, official data suggests. The latest Household Costs Index...

House prices ended 2023 up 1.7%, Halifax has claimed. The lender’s latest House Price Index for December 2023 suggests the price of...

This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising rents, and the threat of falling property prices. Although average...

House prices are set to fall further next year, two major lenders claim. The house prices indices of Halifax and Nationwide have...

By Kevin Shaw, National Sales, Managing Director, Leaders Romans Group This year has seen an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, fluctuating mortgage rates, rising...

The Land Registry has recorded the first annual drop in property values for a decade in its house price index. Both the...

It wouldn’t be sensible to jump to a firm conclusion about the prospects of the housing market this side of Christmas,...

The best way to judge the UK housing market is to check on what’s happening in Parliament, not the price indices...

An opinion piece by Sam Reynolds, CEO of Zero Deposit Just weeks ago, the Bank of England brought a halt to its...

Over recent years, as successive governments have tightened lettings legislation and increased the tax burden on landlords, some with investment properties...

A recent poll of 11,000 private renters by SpareRooom reveals that 81% spend more than 30% of their take-home pay on...

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

The average first-time buyer in Britain has seen the cost of a home increase by £25 per day since interest rates...

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

Readers of a certain age may remember 1983. The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first flight, Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader,...

The property market is ‘recalibrating’ but should be seen in context of economic events, agents are being urged. Kris Mclean, managing director...

The Bank of England increased interest rates to their highest level since the financial crisis yesterday, prompting fears of higher cost...

As uncertainty continues to prevail across the industry, aided by a government in crisis, the challenges in the months ahead feel...

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...

Annual house price growth figures returned to double digits in April but there are warnings that this could be as good...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that he is considering extending Margaret Thatcher’s Right-to-Buy scheme, that gives council tenants the chance to...

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

As we slide into Christmas, with the busiest levels of house buying since 2006 and activity still buoyant, I don’t think...

Affordability has always been a hot topic when it comes to the property market, and this is doubly true for first-time...

2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

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

The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...

The Bank of England will intervene if it considers soaring house prices will affect the inflation rate says Sir Dave Ramsden,...

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 last 12 months have heralded significant change across the property market and indeed we could argue across all markets in...

One housing market index suggests that average house prices in England and Wales have risen by 9.8 per cent in the...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

What do General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, and WhatsApp have in common? Yes, they are American companies that boasted revenues of $50...

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

UK house prices fell by 1.7 per cent in May, after taking account of seasonal effects – this is the largest...

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

Rightmove has seen one of the best returns on investment of any company in the FTSE indices according to an investment...

Annual house price growth increased to 4.1 per cent in January, up slightly from the end of 2019, according to Halifax...

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...

Another house price index has suggested the housing market continuing to show great resilience despite the continuing economic and political uncertainty. The...

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

It’s a new index but it tells an old story - how prime central London prices have dropped significantly since their...

Just when you thought it was all Brexit doom and gloom, a major index shows that house prices in February grew...

Government figures show the UK’s annual house price growth now being down to 2.5 per cent - the lowest rate since...

The latest Your Move house price data confirms what a wide range of indices have shown recently - slowing price growth and,...

New build house prices rose 5.1 per cent in the year to the end of August - substantially more than the...

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

Prices grew at a faster than expected rate last month according to the Halifax House Price Index, which has reported a...

The sun has finally returned to ours skies and you’re on the lookout for a little bit of summer reading. As...

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...

Official figures from the latest UK House Price Index show that average house prices fell by 0.6% between February and March. The...

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,...

High-end agency Savills has produced a few notable house price figures in its time but its latest measure takes some beating...

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...

Rightmove secured over 131m visits last month, an all-time high for January. The 131m total was some three per cent above January...

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

Zoopla Property Group’s £120m purchase of Hometrack, announced yesterday evening, is part of its aim to create “the UK’s most valuable...

Countrywide estate agency group is to drop out of the FTSE 250 from the start of trading on December 19. The news...

It is a tedious fact, but the housing market is underpinned by economic fundamentals. This won’t be a surprise.  However, at a...

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

Average house prices across the UK rose 8.7 per cent in the year to the end of June - so including...

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...

So we now have a new 'official' index of house prices, and much good may it do us. For the chattering classes...

The first new ‘official’ UK House Price Index, released yesterday, has received mixed reviews from the industry. On the one hand there...

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 across the UK increased by 9.0 per cent in the year to March, showing a significant rise from the 7.6...

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’...

A property statistician says portals may be inaccurately reflecting prices in some areas because of possible double-counting of properties listed with...

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...

In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...

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,...

One of Britain's leading buying agencies say transactions at the very highest end of the London market may be as much...

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

UK average house prices rose 0.4 per cent in July taking the annual pace of change up to 3.5 per cent,...