Homes with good EPCs are worth on average 14% more. This claim – which is interesting, since our readers constantly tell us that no one looks at EPCs when buying – comes from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, which says that making energy improvements to a property could boost its value by even more than the average, by as much as 38%...

The average UK house price in April stood at £238,000, the Office for National Statistics has said. It was an increase of 2.6% from April of last year, but with a very patchy regional picture...

Young people remain pessimistic about their chances of getting on the property ladder, with only a third prepared to save for a deposit for more than three years before abandoning their plans...

A former mortgage broker who was working out of an estate agency could go to jail after he continued to give mortgage advice despite a ban. Michael Lewis, 65, pleaded guilty to 12 criminal offences in a case brought by the regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority...

An estate agent has appeared in court accused of defrauding clients out of over £18,000. Tim Glasson, 50, of Tim Glasson Estate Agents in Camborne, Cornwall, is facing 12 charges of abusing his position intending to cause loss or exposure to risk of loss to individuals between 2010 and 2013 in Camborne...

Spicerhaart has lost its costly four-year battle against Fine & Country over the use of its Fine brand. The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the High Court handed down in March last year, supporting Fine & Country’s claim that Spicerhaart was guilty of trademark infringement and passing-off...

Asking prices across England and Wales have breached the £250,000 mark for the first time, Rightmove reported this morning. The average asking price of a property brought to the market between May 12 and June 8 was £252,798 – up 2...

The NAEA and ARLA have named their new incoming presidential teams.   Jan Hӱtch, from Arnolds Keys, Norfolk, is president of the NAEA, while Susan Fitz-Gibbon succeeds Jane Ingram as ARLA...