house prices

Advisers have been warned to be "very careful" when recommending stamp duty land tax avoidance (SDLT) schemes as some unscrupulous vendors downplay the risks of an HMRC investigation into the activity.

Most parents and grandparents would be comfortable releasing up to £10,000 from their homes to help their offspring, research suggests.

MoneySavingExpert's Martin Lewis has written an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to push through compulsory financial education in schools.

Average house prices in September dropped 2.6% year-on-year, with the average house price in England and Wales now £162,109, according to the Land Registry.

House prices will rise, workers are taxed more than they think, and the recovery is under threat from psychological scarring left by the financial crisis. Our round-up of the news from the nationals.

House sellers are being forced to cut asking prices by over £18,500 or 7.1% on average, according to Zoopla research.

House prices rose just 0.2% in July, as the combination of low demand and slowly increasing housing supply continued to kept values flat, according to Nationwide.

Average UK house prices are unlikely to recover to their previous peak levels until around 2020, according to analysis by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC).

Homeowners in the most economically prosperous areas of the UK saw the value of their property rise by £147,000 in the decade to 2008, more than a third higher than the jump in locations with the smallest levels of economic activity, research suggests....

UK house prices are expected to jump 16% over the next four years to take prices above 2007's high, experts have predicted.