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U.K. home sales collapsed last month as the government effectively shut down the market to help slow the coronavirus outbreak.

The original so-called payment holiday started in March and was set to end next month.

U.K. house prices may fall 16% because of the economic upheaval caused by the coronavirus, according to a desktop stress test by the Bank of England.

U.K. real estate agents reported that house prices increased for the first time in more than a year last month.

U.S. developers are moving into the U.K.'s rapidly expanding market for rental housing, including student dorms and senior-living facilities.

The U.K. housing market perked up in December as Boris Johnson's commanding election win helped push up sales and expectations for price gains.

London bore the brunt of heightened political uncertainty in October, with house prices posting their biggest monthly decline for more than eight years.

The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority is forcing firms to spell out executives’ responsibilities and put them on the hook for conduct problems. The toughest rules will apply to larger mortgage lenders.

U.K. house prices increased at their fastest pace in more than a year this month, according to Nationwide Building Society.

Wealthy homebuyers are finding global cities less welcoming — even hostile — to their cash.

U.K. house prices posted their slowest growth this year in October, according to mortgage lender Halifax.

The time it takes to sell a home in Central London has soared to 20 weeks as lingering uncertainty surrounding Brexit scares off buyers.

Asking prices for London homes rebounded in October amid a scarcity of new properties, with areas closest to the center of the U.K. capital seeing the biggest gains.

U.K. house prices are growing at the slowest rate in more than six years, according to mortgage lender Halifax.

London's luxury housing market is flush with buyers, but prices keep on falling.

U.K. home prices edged up marginally, according to mortgage lender Halifax, which said the market is stuck in a "flat trend."

The world's headlong dash to zero or negative interest rates just passed another milestone: Homebuyers in Denmark effectively are being paid to take out 10-year mortgages.

U.K. house-price growth stayed subdued in April in a sign the delay to Brexit failed to reinvigorate the market, according to Nationwide Building Society.

Average mortgage rates plunged after the United Kingdom first voted to leave the European Union. With uncertainty now growing about how Brexit will actually happen, here's a look at the implications for the housing market and mortgage lending.

Call it mutual respect. Bankers from mutually owned British building societies and similarly structured U.S. thrifts recently gathered in New England to address common challenges and share ideas about staying relevant at a time of rapid change in financial services. Here are the takeaways from their meetings.