Growth-proofing the equity release rebound

Growth-proofing the equity release rebound

2021 was an explosive year for equity release. It saw a borrowing boom in the sector of 24%, with annual lending growing year-on-year from £3.86 to £4.8 billion to decidedly wipe out the record previously set in 2018 of £3.94bn. These are some fascinating, and at...

UK House Price Indices Suffer from Incomplete Sales Data

  The Land Registry Price Paid Dataset provides a complete database of prices at which residential properties are transacted in England and Wales. Data is released with a two-month lag so that a dataset published on the nth month will contain transactions that took...

Climate Stress Test Insights

How can climate-informed stress testing support a more resilient global economy and society? This was the question that was recently discussed during the COP26 event: Climate-Informed Stress Testing for the Financial Sector, hosted by the UK Centre for Greening...

Inflated house prices wipe out stamp duty savings

Data shows that every region in the UK has experienced a rise in average sold property prices irrespective of the “saving” made from the stamp duty holiday. Analytics performed on house price index, powered by MIAC on sold house prices in June 2020, the last...