UK mortgage price war hots up with 0.94% fixed-rate deal

Deals offered by HSBC and TSB are available only to borrowers with hefty deposits

Housing boom takes Persimmon sales past pre-pandemic levels

Housebuilder benefits from cut in stamp duty to report revenues of £1.84bn for first half of 2021

UK house prices fell in June as full stamp duty holiday ended, says Halifax

Price of average home slipped by 0.5% in June to £260,358 but still 8.8% higher than a year ago

Liberalise planning rules to fix a housing crisis – sounds logical, but it won’t work

Restrictions are not the main barrier to housebuilding in Britain, says author Anna Minton

Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey opposed plans to cut new home emissions

Exclusive: firm also argued against heat pumps, which are proposed as a replacement for gas boilers

John Lewis plans to build 10,000 rental homes on its land

Sites include above Waitrose supermarkets and will range from studio flats to four-bedroom houses

Is the UK housing bubble about to burst? These are the best and worst scenarios

UK GDP has fallen – yet house prices have soared. Even a small rise in interest rates could hurt the economy, says economist Josh Ryan-Collins

UK house prices rise at fastest rate since 2004 amid stamp duty rush

Nationwide says all areas of the country recorded growth, with London prices increasing by 7.3%

Homebuyers rush to complete before stamp duty holiday deadline

Buyers who miss 30 June cutoff may have to pull out of purchases, putting chains of sales at risk

Persimmon and Aviva to refund leaseholders after UK rent inquiry

Housebuilder and insurer agree to make payments after watchdog uncovers evidence of overcharging

House asking prices hit record levels across Great Britain

Rightmove data shows largest June increase since 2015 but economists suggest Covid boom may be fading

HSBC offers sub-1% mortgage as interest rate war intensifies

Banks and building societies fight for customers as house prices rise in frenzied market

Vaccines were not part of AstraZeneca’s grand strategy, so what’s the plan now?

Having built a big operation during the pandemic it could stick or twist but either way investors will soon want a decision

Do millennials really prefer to rent – or have we just been cheated out of a proper home?

Capitalism is reshaping the property market, locking younger generations out of buying somewhere to live and expecting us to be happy about it, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Stamp duty holiday helps drive up UK property prices

Gap between supply and demand for homes at widest level since 2013, says Rics