Mortgage lender the Halifax claims that house prices fell by 1.3 per cent last year to an average of £160,063, their lowest level since July 2009. According to the Halifax House Price Index, house prices fell 0.9 per cent in December, compared with the previous month. Although prices rose in the third quarter of 2010, [...]
The housing market is expected to improve strongly in 2013-14, with a 20 per cent increase in transactions, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said yesterday. An upward trend is expected to start developing in 2012-13, when 1.5 per growth is expected, according to the OBR’s forecasts which accompanied the chancellor’s Autumn Statement. Recent figures [...]
A new report from a leading think-tank is predicting that UK house prices will fall by 4.5% in 2011, followed by an average 1.5% fall in each of the subsequent four years. According to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), this year’s decline will reflect the squeeze on household finances resulting from [...]
UK house prices fell by 0.2% in April, leaving the value of the typical home down 1.3% on a year earlier, at £165,609, according to Nationwide. The decline follows a monthly increase of 0.5% in March and the three-month-on-three-month measure, which is a better measure of the underlying trend, shows a modest year-on-year rise of [...]
Surveyors are feeling less optimistic about UK house prices, with more respondents to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) August survey expecting prices to fall, rather than rise, over the next three months. However, RICS spokesman, Jeremy Leaf, points out that while prices in many parts of the country may be slipping, sales levels [...]
UK house prices rose by 0.2% in August, following on from a 0.6% increase in July, according to Halifax. Much of the decline seen in the three preceding months has now been reversed, leaving the annual rate of inflation at 4.6%, slightly below the 4.9% measured in July. With the typical value of a home [...]
UK house prices saw their second consecutive monthly fall in August, according to Nationwide. The lender recorded a 0.9% decline in the average value of a home, following a 0.5% month-on-month fall in July. The annual rate of inflation remained in positive territory at 3.9% but was down sharply, from 6.6% in July and 8.7% [...]
Halifax has reported that UK house prices increased by 0.6% in July, reversing a fall of 0.6% in June. Prices were 4.9% higher year-on-year, having lost ground on a month earlier when the annual rate of growth registered at 6.3%. At £167,425, the value of the average home stood 8.3% above its April 2009 trough [...]
UK house prices fell back in July, for the first time since February, as buyer demand remained weak. According to Nationwide, the average value of a home declined by 0.5%, to £169,347, taking the annual rate of inflation down to 6.6%, compared with 8.7% in June. The lender notes that the sizeable drop is due [...]
New figures from the Land Registry show house prices in England and Wales back to summer 2006 levels, having risen by 0.1% in June, compared with May. Last month, the typical home sported an annual gain of 8.4%, taking the average house price to £166,072. All ten regions of England and Wales experienced annual rises, [...]
UK house prices fell by 0.6% in June, following a similar decline in May, Halifax has reported. The average value of a home stood at £166,203, with the annual rate of gain easing back to 6.3%, compared with 6.9% in May. That being said, prices in the April to June quarter were largely unchanged compared [...]
Housebuilder, Taylor Wimpey, has declared that the underlying shortfall of new build housing and strong levels of demand will continue to underpin UK house prices. The developer is wary of the “ongoing political and economic uncertainty” and warns that a shortage of building land will “artificially constrain” the recovery in new house building, in the [...]
Halifax has reported that UK house prices increased by an annual 6.6% in April. However, a month-on-month fall of 0.1%, took the value of the typical home down to £168,202, or £13,539 above its April 2009 trough. Commenting on the figures, the lender’s housing economist, Martin Ellis, says: “The underlying rate of house price growth [...]
UK house prices rose by an average 0.2% in April (compared with 0.3% a month earlier), as instructions for house sales outstripped new enquiries from potential buyers. According to Hometrack, the number of new buyers registering with agents rose by 1%, the smallest increase so far this year, while growth in new instructions stood at [...]
UK house prices rose by 0.7% in March, compared with a month earlier, according to Nationwide. The increase almost reverses the 0.8% month-on-month fall recorded in February and takes the average cost of a home to £164,519, or 9% more than a year ago. However, the three-month-on-three-month rate of inflation edged down to 1.6% in [...]
UK house prices fell by 1.5% in February when compared to January, according to Halifax. The lender’s monthly index registered its first decline since June 2009, following seven consecutive monthly increases. However, at £166,587, the average price of a UK home came in 8% above the market trough of April 2009, and up 4.5% on [...]
A member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has cast doubt on the idea of a continued recovery of the UK housing market. Addressing the Treasury Select Committee earlier this week, Kate Barker stated a personal view that mortgage finance could be “quite restrained” in the months ahead, leading to the possibility [...]
New figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) show the number of homes sold in the UK falling to 87,000 in November, compared with 90,000 in October. However, last month’s total for properties worth £40,000 and above is the second-highest so far in 2009, and the dip still leaves completed transactions at over twice the [...]
Despite reporting the sixth consecutive monthly rise in UK house prices in October, Nationwide Building Society has given a downbeat forecast for the market. In delivering half-year results, the lender’s chief executive, Graham Beale, warned: “The growth in house prices over recent months appears to be driven by lack of supply, and growth in unemployment [...]
In its latest survey of the housing market, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) concludes that UK house prices will continue to rise in the near term. The balance of surveyors reporting rises rather than falls in house prices stood at a positive 34% in October 2009, up from 20% a month earlier and [...]
M&S Money launches 3% cash ISA
M&S Money has launched an Advantage Cash ISA paying 3 per cent, and which allows transfers in from other ISAs. It can be opened with a minimum deposit of £100 lump sum followed by minimum monthly deposits of £25. The 3% rate is variable, but there is no short-term bonus so the return won’t plummet [...]
Google suspends UK Compare Mortgages site
Google has closed its UK mortgage comparison site which it launched in July last year, after it proved to be less popular than expected. Mortgage comparison sites are designed to allow visitors to compare mortgages quickly and easily without having to visit each lender’s individual site. Google was competing with several well-established comparison sites, including [...]
AA launches ‘black-box’ policy for young drivers
The AA is launching an innovative car insurance policy called Drivesafe which could help younger drivers save up to £850 a year. Younger drivers already pay substantially higher premiums than other motorists and these costs are increasing. A new study by Confused.com suggests insurance costs for younger driver have gone up by 5.7 per cent [...]
ATOL scheme updated to protect online bookers
ATOL, a financial protection scheme managed by the Civil Aviation Authority, is being extended to protect up to six million more holidays a year. The scheme ensures that holiday makers do not lose out financially if a travel company collapses, and that they are not stranded abroad. An increase in the number of holidays booked [...]
Home repossessions lowest for four years
The number of UK homes repossessed fell to 36,200 in 2011, significantly below the Council of Mortgage Lenders’ forecast of 40,000, and lower than 2010 when 37,100 homes were repossessed. With interest rates remaining low and lenders adopting a sympathetic attitude to customers in financial difficulty, repossessions fell to their lowest level since 2007. However, [...]
Monthly pay lasting just 17 days
Workers are running out of money just 17 days after receiving their monthly pay, according to new research by the Halifax bank. This means that the average UK worker spends half the month worrying about money. The study, based on the responses of more than 2,000 adults, found that 10 per cent of workers start [...]
Women disadvantaged by auto-enrolment changes
Government proposals to increase the auto-enrolment threshold to £10,000 could put 1.8 million women at risk of missing out on a pension, the TUC has warned. Under the auto-enrolment scheme, which will be phased in from October, private sector employers will automatically enrol workers between the age of 22 years and the state pension age, [...]
Emergency household repairs company Homeserve is taking longer than expected to get back on track after its operations were suspended last October. The company expected customer numbers to fall by 5% this year but it has increased this estimate to 8% and announced the loss of 200 jobs. It estimates that renewal revenue in 2013 [...]
Sale rumoured for Yorkshire and Clydesdale banks
There is growing speculation that National Australia Bank (NAB) may sell Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank after the Australian parent company announced a strategic review of the two banks’ operations. The Australian economy is performing well and NAB reported strong profits for the final quarter of 2011 but with the UK economy at a virtual [...]
More women experiencing debt difficulties
Women in Debt, which offers female-focused debt advice, has warned that the number of UK women facing serious debt has grown significantly over recent years. The organisation believes that more women will need advice on solving debt problems in the future because they are building up an unsustainable level of indebtedness. Women in Debt’s director, [...]
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