In a move that aims to help more families onto the housing ladder, the Scottish Government has announced that the price cap on properties eligible for the Help to Buy (Scotland) scheme will remain at £200,000 in 2018/19.

There was a fall in the number of home movers in Britain during 2016, according to the latest Lloyds Bank Home Mover Review. This is apparently the first time in five years that numbers have decreased.

According to the latest UK Cities House Price Index from Hometrack, annual house price inflation during June remained unchanged from May at 10.2%, but was still ahead of the 6.9% seen in June last year.

A new report from Registers of Scotland (RoS) has revealed that the total value of the residential sales market in Scotland from 2006 to 2016 amounted to just over £148.2 billion.