Average house prices have risen for the fourth month in a row, according to the latest figures from Halifax.

The number of new homes planned by housebuilders fell by almost half last year, new figures have shown.

Landlords in the UK are struggling to regain their properties from tenants who have breached their tenancies or stopped paying rent, due to inefficiencies and backlogs in the court system, a leading tenant eviction specialist says.

Glasgow has been revealed as the UK city with the biggest rise in the number of buy to let properties in the past year, closely followed by Nottingham, Leeds and Bristol.

Figures released by HMRC show that the Treasury raked in £5.7 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the nine months from April to December 2023. This is £400m more than in the same period a year earlier, continuing a long-term upward trend.

More young people believe they will use property to fund their old age rather than pensions, even though few have reached the stage of having a mortgage yet, research reveals.

Compared with a decade ago, today’s first-time buyers are older, more likely to buy with a partner and more likely to have dependent children. This highlights how getting on the property ladder is becoming increasingly hard for younger borrowers. However, lenders are always introducing new propositions to ensure solutions are in place to help prospective homeowners buy their first property. It could be you who helps them!

The average deposit needed to get on the housing ladder fell 15% last year, according to one of the UK's largest mortgage lenders.