Halifax

House prices in towns with an award winning approach to landscaping and environmental management tend to outperform the regional average, according new research

Cash held in Isas grew a record 129% over the last three years, new research indicates.

The current slowdown in the housing market is not detracting investor confidence in property investment, research suggests.

House prices continue to cool, declining 0.5% in February, according to mortgage lender Halifax.

As if to emphasise the challenge facing the Tony Blair, who last week nipped round the country pledging affordable housing as part of his pre-electioneering, Halifax has released figures showing just how much house prices have come in the past decade....

While housing prices increased for a second consecutive month in January, Halifax's monthly index found that annual rate ground to its weakest growth in three years.

More than nine-in-ten, or 92% of the UK's main postal towns are now out of reach of the average first time buyer of residential property, according to figures published by Halifax.

Talk of a slowdown in the property market has been temporarily silenced after Halifax reported a 1.1% increase in house prices for December.

THE FINANCIAL OMBUDSMAN SERVICE (FOS) says it will not be able to cope with the expected increase in mortgage endowment complaints in 2005, unless steps are taken to force providers to settle cases themselves, the Telegraph says.

Another month of house price falls has led Halifax to warn prices could drop an average of 2% in the coming 12-month period, following a 160% increase in prices in the past nine years.