Before the credit crunch it took first-time buyers two to four years to save up a deposit for a property but a quarter of first-time buyers now say it will take them at least ten years. In its latest Property Tracker report, the Building Societies Association (BSA) suggests that since September 2010 raising a deposit [...]
Property website Rightmove has reported a 2 per cent increase in property prices year on year, but this is largely due to a rise in the price of luxury homes in London. The 2 per cent increase in November 2012 compared with the previous year, is the highest annual rate of increase since 2007. Across [...]
House prices fell in July, to an average of £161,094 across the country, after increasing in the previous two months. Prices fell by 0.6 per cent in July, compared with the previous month, according to the Halifax House Price Index. Average prices are also 0.6 per cent lower compared with July 2011, the Halifax said. [...]
Property website Rightmove recorded a drop in the average asking price for residential property this month, representing the first fall since January. Average prices have fallen by 1.7 per cent, a drop of £4,138, with demand low due to the wet weather deterring potential buyers from viewing properties. The website also blamed the Olympics for [...]
Rent accounts for a half of income for a third of UK tenants, with the average UK rent now reaching £745.97 per month. New figures from Rightmove suggest that the average tenant spends 38 per cent of their wages on rent and this figure increases to 40 per cent in the South East and London. [...]
Two in five property owners planning to sell in the next year are planning to ‘trade down’, compared with one in four who plan to ‘trade up’. A survey by property website Rightmove found that moving to a smaller home is the main reason for moving in nine out of the ten regions in the [...]
The asking price for property in the UK has reached record high levels, boosted by a surge in prices in London, according to property site Rightmove. The average asking price for property in England and Wales increased by 2.9 per cent in April to £243,737 Asking prices in London increased by 2.1 per cent to [...]
UK house prices increased by £3,687 to £236,939 in March, a 4.9 per cent increase compared with the 2011 first quarter. The figures, from Rightmove’s house price index, represent the largest first-quarter rise in property prices since 2004, boosting hopes for an continued improvement in the market for the rest of the year. In London, [...]
UK property website Rightmove saw traffic to its property portal soar by 22 per cent to 9.3 billion pages in 2011. The site accounted for 84 per cent of the pages viewed on the top four property websites. Over two-thirds of Rightmove’s advertisers took advantage of additional advertising products available to promote their properties, with [...]
The latest figures from the Land Registry show that house prices fell by 1.3 per cent in England and Wales in 2011, with the average property costing £160,384 in December. Prices remained stable at the end of the year, with no change between November and December 2011. The only place in England and Wales where [...]
Despite record levels of search activity on its website this month, estate agency Rightmove reports that the number of new homes being put up for sale has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded. More than 44 million property searches were carried out on Rightmove’s site during the first ten days of 2012, a 27% [...]
The Halifax reported a 0.9 per cent fall in house prices in November, compared with the previous month, and it expects the housing market to remain steady over the winter. November’s fall in house prices came despite a 3 per cent increase in the number of mortgages approved during the month to 52,700, according to [...]
New figures from the Halifax show a 1.2 per cent increase in house prices in October, however compared with a year ago they have fallen by 1.8 per cent. In the three months to the end of October, house prices fell by 0.3 per cent, compared with the previous quarter, representing the first fall since [...]
Property website, Rightmove, has today reported a further rise in asking prices for the month of October. According to Rightmove, asking prices for residential property in England and Wales surged 2.8% in October on a monthly basis and were 1.2% higher compared with this time last year. This compares with a 0.7% monthly increase and [...]
Property website, Rightmove, has today reported a slight rise in asking prices for the month of September. According to Rightmove, asking prices for residential property in England and Wales rose 0.7% (or an average £1,596) in September. The property website, which claims to advertise 90% of the properties on the market, said the latest asking [...]
Property website, Rightmove, has today reported a drop in asking prices for the month of August – the second consecutive monthly fall. According to Rightmove, asking prices for residential property in England and Wales fell by 2.1% this month after a 1.6% decline in July. The property website, which claims to advertise 90% of the [...]
Property website, Rightmove, has today reported a drop in asking prices for the month of July – the first fall this year. According to Rightmove, asking prices for residential property in England and Wales fell by 1.6% in July. The property website, which claims to advertise 90% of the properties on the market, said the [...]
According to research from property website Zoopla, around 80% of properties acquired since 2006 are now worth less than their purchase price. However, 89% of homes bought since the housing market peaked in 2007 are also worth less than homeowners paid for them with the problem particularly bad in the North East. In the North [...]
Property website, Rightmove, has today reported a rise in asking prices for the month of June – the sixth consecutive month of growth. According to Rightmove, asking prices for residential property in England and Wales grew 0.6% in June after a 1.3% increase in May. The property website, which claims to advertise 90% of the [...]
Property website, Rightmove, has today reported a rise in asking prices for the month of April – the fourth consecutive month of growth. According to Rightmove, asking prices for residential property in England and Wales grew 0.9% on an annual basis. The property website, which claims to advertise 90% of the properties on the market, [...]
Gender directive could slash men’s annuity payouts
The EU Gender Directive, which came into force today, could see men losing up to £10,000 from their annuity payouts, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Under the new rules insurers are no longer allowed to take gender into account when setting annuity rates and premiums on insurance products. Men previously enjoyed higher annuity rates than [...]
Home rental costs down in November
The cost of renting a house in England and Wales fell by 0.4 per cent in November, its first dip since March, according to a survey by LSL Property Services. Average rent was £741m during the month, returning to the level seen in September. However, it was 3.4 per higher than in November last year. [...]
Lloyds TSB halts sale of packaged accounts in branches
Lloyds TSB will stop selling packaged account in its branches from 1 January 2013, until its sales procedures are brought into line with those operated by sister bank The Halifax. Lloyds TSB is one of the main providers of packaged accounts in Britain, with around one in three of its customers choosing to pay fees [...]
Housing market recovery to continue next year
Recent improvements in the housing market should continue into next year, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) Gross lending is estimated to have increased to £12.9 billion in November, helped by the Funding for Lending scheme which provides banks and building societies with lower-cost funding, which they are then supposed to pass on [...]
Newcastle Building Society exits interest-only mortgages
Newcastle Building Society has stopped offering interest-only mortgages to new borrowers, following the lead of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Nationwide, Co-operative bank and Coventry Building Society. The decision will not affect existing Newcastle customers and applications for interest-only mortgages received before 14 December will still be processed. Prior to the credit crunch, interest-only mortgages [...]
Less than half of Brits considered creditworthy
Fifty-seven per cent of UK adults are at risk of having an application for credit turned down by a mainstream lender according to a new report. The ‘Mind the Credit Gap‘ report commissioned by aqua credit cards suggests that even people with a good credit rating and earning more than £50,000 could have a credit [...]
Monthly incomes £22 lower in 2012
The average monthly income of UK households fell by £22 in real terms compared with last year, according to a survey carried out for the Bank of England (BoE) by NMG Consulting. People on lower incomes have seen their income eroded more than higher earners and households still have high levels of debt the BoE [...]
Savers dig deep to fund Christmas
New research from the Halifax suggests that savers are funding their Christmas spending with money set aside for other purposes. Thirty-seven per cent of 2,138 savers surveyed by the bank at the end of November had withdrawn savings in the last three months. The average amount withdrawn was £1,186, more than double the average savings [...]
Financial data at risk from unsafe passwords
According to a survey by the Payments Council the problem of having to remember a different password for several accounts means that many internet users are compromising the security of their financial data. Internet users have 22 password-protected accounts on average and many use the same log-in details for more than one account, even though [...]
Wonga launches Paylater loans on retailer website
Payday loan company Wonga has launched a new Paylater service on furniture firm Cotswold Company’s website. The service, which allows customers to “buy now, pay later” will be introduced on other retailers’ sites in the near future. Although the Paylater branding is similar to Wonga’s, the Wonga name only appears in the small print. A [...]
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