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A leading business analyst is firmly blaming interest rates for the see-saw in house prices seen in recent indices. The latest, from...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The latest Halifax house price index results, which show mixed fortunes for the housing market, should be seen as a spur...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Slowing inflation may - just may - lead the way for reduced interest rates. The headline inflation rate is now just 3.4%,...
21 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Latest inflation figures are announced on Wednesday and the Bank of England makes its next base rate decision on Thursday. The Office...
18 March 2024
From: Breaking News
UK house prices rose for the fifth consecutive month in February, up by 0.4 per cent or £1,091 in cash terms,...
11 March 2024
From: Breaking News
The latest index, from the Halifax, shows house prices rose 0.4 per cent in February – the fifth consecutive monthly increase....
09 March 2024
From: The Big Issues
Building on the momentum of 2023, the North West is poised for continued growth in rental and property prices. Early investment...
02 March 2024
From: Top tips & guides
The letting agents’ trade body has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically decided...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Knight Frank says that the Bank of England base rate is likely to stay unchanged at 5.25 per cent for at...
26 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Average rents on newly let properties across Britain rose 8.3 per cent year-on-year in January, the slowest pace for 13 months...
20 February 2024
From: Breaking News
This week’s official inflation rate is now expected to show a possible rise, rather than a fall. Although there is widespread expectation...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Landlords seeking capital appreciation will be encouraged from two new housing market surveys - one showing a surprise rise in house...
08 February 2024
From: Breaking News
There’s a warning today that the Bank of England’s decision to freeze base rate at the high level of 5.25 per...
02 February 2024
From: Breaking News
UK house prices rose by 0.7 per cent in January, resulting in an improvement in the annual rate of house prices...
01 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The average price of a home in Wales fell to £234,086 at the end 2023 following continued economic and financial pressures,...
30 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, designed to give landlords more protection, have won the backing of a prominent industry figure. Neil Cobbold,...
23 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A prominent analyst says the threat of rising inflation caused by the Red Sea shipping attacks - on top of this...
18 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The yo-yo economic news is now casting doubt on whether the Bank of England will cut base rate as quickly as...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
An insurance firm claims landlords shopping for a new mortgage deal may be expected by lenders to prepare personal guarantees. Purbeck claims...
16 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A building society is calling upon politicians, government, the Bank of England and local councils and other bodies to cooperate on...
13 January 2024
From: The Big Issues
Analysts have warned landlords and others interested in the housing market from celebrating too much following the latest Halifax index figures. The...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The latest Halifax house price index shows average house prices rose by 1.1 per cent in December, the third monthly rise...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
There’s no prospect of a rapid recovery for the housing market in 2024 despite some green shoots appearing. The warning comes from...
02 January 2024
From: Breaking News
New data from HM Revenue and Customs reveals a 22 per cent annual drop in residential transactions in the year to...
02 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Monthly interest costs have surged by 283 per cent since 2021 for landlords using interest-only mortgages, research shows. Octane Capital compared rates...
22 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Almost two thirds of private landlords expect to see their mortgage payments increase over the next 12 months with warnings that...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Consumer Price Inflation in November was 3.9 per cent - significantly lower than the 4.4 per cent expected by many analysts. It’s...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The Nationwide says 2023 has seen a surprisingly-resilient housing market but there will be no full scale recovery in 2024 -...
20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Two-thirds of private landlords in the UK are optimistic about how their property investments will perform in the coming years -...
20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - but just as it has done this, it’s revealed asking prices have dropped...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
UK house prices rose an average of 0.2 per cent month on month in November - prompting the Nationwide to call...
04 December 2023
From: Breaking News
I recently attended the NRLA’s annual conference in Birmingham and a theme that still dominates discussion in the industry is the...
02 December 2023
From: Tax & Finance
Any hope of a near-term drop in interest rates appears to have been wiped out by a statement by Bank of...
29 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Markets are saying the UK - and for that matter the US and mainland Europe - have all hit peak interest...
28 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Inflation for the year to October has fallen to 4.6 per cent. That’s a big fall from 6.7 per cent in September...
15 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Savills is warning that the average UK house price is projected to fall by a further 3.0 per cent in 2024...
08 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Average house prices rose by 1.1 per cent in October, compared to a fall of 0.3 per cent in September says...
08 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has left its base interest rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent. Its Monetary Policy Committee, which decides the...
02 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The best way to judge the UK housing market is to check on what’s happening in Parliament, not the price indices...
01 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Average house prices are now falling 2.9 per cent annually in England and Wales according to the monthly e.surv index. Yorkshire and...
17 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The UK housing market is remaining “more resilient than expected” despite the latest price index showing another small fall. The Halifax say...
09 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has revealed its latest decision on base rate - which in turn has a strong influence on...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The monetary policy committee of the Bank of England meets today - and will it approve a 15th successive base rate...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
One of the most influential consumer property groups has made an impassioned plea to the Bank of England not to raise...
20 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The classic “landlord favourite” for buying and selling - the auction house - appears to be bucking the downward trend in...
19 September 2023
From: Breaking News
To help or not to help: that is the question the government is facing with regard to under-pressure private rented sector...
16 September 2023
From: Tax & Finance
Rents will rise 25 per cent over the next four years, outpacing the modest 5.5 per cent House price growth across...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The Generation Rent group of activists says Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey is on their side about Section 21 evictions. Bailey...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The Generation Rent group of activists has written an open letter to mortgage firm chief executives asking for special dispensation for...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
By Richard O’Neill, managing director, lettings at Romans Estate Agents As a landlord, your property’s yield is an important figure. It indicates...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords about to remortgage are being urged to secure a new rate as early as possible - even six months in...
21 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Debate is raging over whether there will be a 15th successive interest rate rise when the Bank of England’s monetary policy...
17 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Any landlord hit with late payment surcharges from HM Revenue & Customs will now face even higher charges. As a result of...
09 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has announced its decision on base rate. It will rise by 0.25 per cent to...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets again today with strong expectations that they will agree their 14th successive base...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Whereas it’s likely that every single landlord has seen higher costs over the past year, two out of five tenants have...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Mortgage lenders have launched a £5m media campaign to publicise the support available to owner occupier mortgage holders if they face...
01 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The latest market snapshot from Zoopla suggests landlords’ capital appreciation over the second half of this year depends almost entirely on...
31 July 2023
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s leading mortgage brokers predicts a rise in the Bank of England base rate next month - and...
20 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Today's inflation figures effectively seal the fate of the housing market for the rest of this year - including the crucial...
19 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The average price of homes coming to the market have dipped slightly once again, according to Rightmove. The newly-marketed properties are some...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Details have emerged of an extraordinary ‘stress test’ created by the Bank of England and tested on eight major banks to...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
If you are a landlord looking for the silver lining in a dark cloud, June’s interest rate decision will have certainly...
13 July 2023
From: Sponsored Content
A new Bank of England forecast predicts that average monthly payments on buy to let mortgages will increase by around £275...
13 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A prominent housing market website suggests that unprecedented demand in the rental market may play “a key role” in restricting supply...
13 July 2023
From: Breaking News
New data shows the slump in transactions across the UK - and may trigger opportunities for aggressive investors seeking to take...
12 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A year ago, many landlords’ primary concern was what would be included in the Government’s long-awaited Renters (Reform) Bill. Today, with...
08 July 2023
From: The Big Issues
Across the country landlords and renters are struggling as mortgage costs soar, tax hikes bite and uncertainty remains about the impact...
08 July 2023
From: Tax & Finance
A specialist buy to let mortgage broker says the government must help landlords with mortgage costs, as well as owner occupiers...
23 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has announced its latest change in base rate, which is used by most lenders to determine interest...
22 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A mortgage expert is warning that a housing market crash now looks ”inevitable” as expectations run high of what many be...
22 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A typical two-year fixed mortgage deal now has an interest rate of more than 6.0 per cent for the first time...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
If this was typical of the past 10 years we would be talking of a 0.6 per cent average house price...
19 June 2023
From: Breaking News
House prices are set to fall much further, a leading property expert has predicted. Last week credit ratings agency Moody's warned of...
16 June 2023
From: Breaking News
New data produced by lettings agency Savills gives an indication of how the buy to let sector may be threatened by...
15 June 2023
From: Breaking News
There’s been widespread anger from the mortgage broker community in response to NatWest’s decision to make buy to let stress tests...
14 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The Halifax says house prices were flat in May, but fell 1.0 per cent in a year - the first annual...
10 June 2023
From: The Big Issues
Average house prices edged down in May according to the Nationwide - and it gives a warning of possibly worse to...
02 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Scrapping a tax hike on rented housing may help ease the housing crisis faced by tenants, according to an analysis by...
01 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A tax expert is advising landlords to avoid failing to register their property sales for Capital Gains Tax within 60 days...
26 May 2023
From: Breaking News
There’s uncertainty over whether the latest inflation figure - showing an annualised drop from 10.1 per cent last month to 8.7...
25 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has announced its latest decision on base rate. This has been increased by 0.25 per cent to 4.5...
11 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Against expectations, the average UK house price increased by 0.5 per cent last month following seven consecutive falls, according to the...
03 May 2023
From: Breaking News
HMRC says UK residential transactions in March totalled 89,560 - that’s a chunky 19 per cent lower than the same month a...
02 May 2023
From: Breaking News
One of the most respected financial organisations is warning landlords and the rest of the property industry that markets are now...
28 April 2023
From: Breaking News
The latest edition of a housing market measure has suggested that one borough of London has seen rent rises of 33...
20 April 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...
23 March 2023
From: Breaking News
There’s a 50:50 chance of yet another Bank of England base rate rise this week according to a leading business analyst. Susannah...
21 March 2023
From: Breaking News
In the last three months of 2022, mortgages agreed for the coming months were down by a third from the previous...
18 March 2023
From: Tax & Finance
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee meets next week to consider whether base rate should rise again - but there’s...
17 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The Financial Conduct Authority has set out ways in which mortgage lenders can help customers struggling with payments - but landlords...
13 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Second home market growth and falling house prices could be a combination for success. There’s been a clear positive correlation between profit...
11 March 2023
From: The Big Issues
House prices fell by an average 1.1 per cent over the past year - the first annual decline since June 2020,...
02 March 2023
From: Breaking News
An influential housing market analyst says it now looks like house prices will stay flat in 2023, rather than fall. Nicholas Mendes,...
24 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Almost a third of private landlords with a buy to let mortgage face the prospect of significantly higher costs this year...
16 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords are being offered fresh advice if they have been hit with higher interest payments following the base rate rise to...
03 February 2023
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England has increased base rate to 4.0 per cent - its 10th rate rise in a row. Avinav Nigam,...