house prices

House prices rose by 0.6% to an average of £172,006 in November, according to the latest figures from the Land Registry.

Nicolas Moreau, the new chief executive of Axa's UK operations, plans to beef up the insurer's asset management business and enter the direct motor insurance market, says the Daily Telegraph .

House price inflation reached a plateau in November but market conditions remain strong, according to the latest housing market survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

House prices are expected to climb 7% nationally next year on the back of strong gains in London, The Daily Telegraph reports the Nationwide as saying.

For the last couple of years that I have worked as a mortgage journalist there has always been what I suppose we can call the elephant in the room - to pinch a rather well worn political phrase - of a housing market gone bust.

Spa towns have higher average house prices than their region, according to research from Halifax Estate Agents.

New pensions buy-out company Paternoster today announced its first deal - the purchase of the final salary scheme of a London underwriting agency, reports the Times .

There is a one in three chance house prices could be significantly lower by the end of the decade than they are today, a new study has claimed.

House prices rose by 1% in September according to the latest figures from the Halifax, taking the annual rate of house price inflation to 8% - its lowest rate since April.

August's interest rate rise has done nothing to dampen house price inflation if the latest figures released by Nationwide Building Society are to be believed.