HOUSE prices

Nationwide's House Price Index for August 2023 concluded a "further softening in the annual rate of house price growth" - Credit: Adobe

House prices wobble - making homes more affordable for wannabe owners

The top ten ‘most affordable’ places to buy a house in the UK have been revealed in new research by Halifax.

Revealed: Top 10 most affordable places to buy a home in the UK

House prices have declined by an average of 0.3% across the UK according to Halifax. Photo by Yui Mok/PA Wire

Property prices: Average cost of a home in Northern Ireland falls by 0.3%

Northern Ireland property portal, PropertyPal, has released its quarterly report highlighting insights and trends shaping the Northern Ireland housing market over Q2 of 2023. Pictured is an update on the average house prices across Northern Ireland

Latest PropertyPal reveals average property prices across Northern Ireland

Surging house prices and pension values have largely benefited older generations with many young people locked out of home ownership altogether, according to the Resolution Foundation.

House prices could fall by 25% in ‘new normal’ for homeowners

The housing market could be hit by higher interest rates according to Nationwide – after house prices in the year to May fell.

Nationwide warns housing market could be hit by higher interest rates

Average house prices.

House prices: Average cost of a property falls between February and March

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and HM Land Registry published the latest official house price data on Wednesday (15 February), known as the UK House Price Index

Are house prices falling in Northern Ireland? Check with our interactive tool

UK train stations increasing property prices the most - see the list

UK housing market 2023: Property price growth continues to decline

Hospital workers in a protest march in Sheffield in 1973. It was at the beginning of a long recession, after an oil crisis and a failed budget the year before

With strikes, inflation and a fuel crisis the UK in 2023 looks like 1973

Halifax reveals towns & cities with biggest property price increases

Mail strikers in Birmingham yesterday. There are major economic problems now, but at the same time society is far more wealthy than 50 years ago, particularly for lower income groups

Ben Lowry: Many of our political disputes are in fact rooted in our wealth

House prices showing biggest fall since 2008. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

House prices record biggest monthly fall since 2008 in November

Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty

Sinn Fein TD slapped down on housing claims

New research has revealed the UK areas where house prices have increased - and dropped - the most in the past 10 years.

The UK areas where house prices have increased the most since 2012
One area saw its property prices rocket by a whopping 113.6%

Borrowers will not be as heavily scrutinised by mortgage lenders under new Bank of England rules (image: Getty Images)

What new UK mortgage affordability test rules could mean for you

NI house prices

Northern Ireland is the strongest performer for annual house price growth

House prices continue to rise with overall average now at £198,890

Revealed: these are the top 20 property hotspots and coldspots of 2021

House prices in NI have risen by 10% in the past year.

Average NI house price ‘increased by 10% over the past year’

Jordan Buchanan, Chief Economist at PropertyPal

Belfast remains the most popular place to purchase, recording 1,550 sales

NI house prices have seen the largest spike in the UK over the past year.

House prices: NI sees largest spike in prices of any UK region in past year

Jordan Buchanan, Chief Economist at PropertyPal

Belfast is the most popular place to buy

Many areas around the UK saw dramatic increases, with the pandemic seeing people buy homes, and property value soaring (Photo: Shutterstock)

House prices have increased the most in these English areas since 2019

House prices have risen rapidly as lockdown has eased. (Photo: Shutterstock)

House prices are at an all-time high due to coronavirus - this is why