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Asking prices have risen by an average of 1.1 per cent or £3,432 in the past month according to Rightmove.  This is...

Rightmove’s monthly price index says the average asking price of homes coming to the market has fallen 1.2 per cent in...

The typical asking price of a home coming on sale has fallen by 0.9 per cent, equivalent to £2,758 - precisely...

Record low stock numbers, political uncertainty and the aftermath of tax changes are the obstacles hindering the housing market, according to...

More than a third of the homes in London currently on the market have had their asking prices reduced according to...

Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...

The latest Rightmove figures show that the number of sales agreed by agents over the last month is up 7% when...

Great Expectations was a fantastic novel-cum-social-history written by Charles Dickens, who once lived in my adopted home city of Portsmouth. But these...

Two leading voices in the PropTech sector suggest a radical overhaul of agents’ fee structures, saying that neither traditional full service nor online...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have now been rising for five consecutive months says Rightmove.  Asking prices rose 2.0...

News headlines talk more and more about a slowdown in the property market, a drop in house prices and the need...

Official figures from the latest UK House Price Index show that average house prices fell by 0.6% between February and March. The...

Average asking prices in London have fallen, while the majority of regional markets are performing strongly, according to the latest index...

The tactic of reducing the asking price of a retirement apartment by £1,000 per week appears to have worked - the...

Even some of the most successful professionals from other professions fail to grasp the most important point when it comes to...

The HomeOwners' Alliance says it has identified what it describes as "the UK's best performing agent" based on how much it...

The price of property coming to the market has hit anoher record high, up 1.1 per cent over the past month...

The website Home, which monitors asking prices, says prices have rallied strongly in the last month but thanks to growing inflation...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the number of sales agreed rose to a 10 year high in February. The NAEA...

A year ago, we were days away from the introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes – a...

The average asking price rise for homes coming to the market in the last month has been a chunky 1.3 per...

Rightmove secured over 131m visits last month, an all-time high for January. The 131m total was some three per cent above January...

The consumer body Which? claims that 19 per cent of properties sold in the year to September went for prices five...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

Another agency says price reductions of 10 per cent or more are often found in some prime central London areas such...

Rightmove’s web traffic between Boxing Day and the end of last week is up five per cent on the same period...

Sales of homes in prime central London improved towards the end of 2016 says Savills - but only after prices were...

The managing partner of a property investment firm says London residential property values have fallen by 15 to 25 per cent...

No fewer than 84 per cent of homes sold for less than their asking prices last month - the highest number...

Becky Fatemi of central London estate agency Rokstone says prime areas of the capital are to suffer a “prolonged phase of...

There’s been a fall in the typical asking price of a home on sale of 2.1 per cent according to Rightmove...

Prominent top end London estate agent Trevor Abrahmsohn says some homes in the higher levels of the market may now have...

A building society that owns two estate agency companies has hit out at what it calls “a lack of sound estate...

Barratt Homes, the UK’s largest housebuilder, is slashing the asking prices of some of its most expensive London homes by 10 per cent. In...

Knight Frank says overseas buyers are not only benefitting from a significant drop in the effective price of central London properties...

The asking price of properties newly launched on the market has dipped by 1.1 per cent in the past month says...

The number of homes sold for £1m and above has risen by 12 per cent in the first half of 2016 -...

The average UK property takes 91 days to sell - and that’s down to greedy sellers according to the mortgage arm...

Figures from London data consultancy Lonres show that since the referendum the average price cut on homes across most of central...

Available stock levels across Greater London, the east of England, plus the south east and the south west are now 16...

A property website monitoring the housing market claims that the propertion of homes cutting their prices whilst on the market has...

Three quarters of properties sold by National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) member branches in August were for less than the...

The average asking price of a property coming to market has started to recover from the dip that followed June's Brexit...

The sales website Home claims that London house prices have dropped an average of 1.2 per cent in the past four...

Knight Frank is warning that it will “take time” for the three per cent stamp duty surcharge to be absorbed into...

The typical price of property coming to the market in the last four weeks is 1.2 per cent lower than in...

Rightmove’s latest house price index, covering two weeks either side of the EU referendum at the end of June, suggests average...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

Buying agent Johnny Turnbull claims that 83.2 per cent of the properties sold in prime central London in the second quarter...

The property website Home is warning that some regional house price rises are unsustainable. It says that prices in the East of...

A significant number of properties are coming to market as a result of separations which don't involve divorce, according to a...

A high-end agency claims that despite prices falling in Prime Central London (PCL), demand was subdued in May due to the prospect...

Property expert and housing analyst Kate Faulkner says estate agents have 'learned their lesson' from the property market slump in 2007-2008. In...

The head of one of the country's largest estate agency chains has urged sellers to be more realistic with the asking...

Data company Propcision has quantified the scale of asking price reductions on some prime central London properties, with many dropping by...

A modest 0.4 per cent rise in average asking prices over the past month conceals a nasty surprise for first time...

Last time out I spoke about the beginnings of a PropTech revolution, with two major London-based events in the offing over...

The rush to beat the stamp duty surcharge deadline has pushed average asking prices to a record high according to Rightmove...

An analysis of homes on sale in every borough of London shows up to a third of properties in some areas...

Rightmove says the average asking price of a property coming to market in England and Wales has now passed £300,000 for the...

A property statistician says portals may be inaccurately reflecting prices in some areas because of possible double-counting of properties listed with...

Rightmove has released market data showing that across Britain the average time it takes to sell a property has dropped from...

A poor exterior of a property on sale knocks an average £57,600 off the price that a home fetches from fast-deciding...

Insurance firm Direct Line claims that there is effectively no premium in a home having a south-facing garden.  It claims analysis of...

Rightmove’s traffic levels have hit another high with visits in January up nearly 20 per cent on the same month last...

Life is getting pretty frustrating for estate agents, and not just because getting houses onto the market is such an uphill...

Sellers know there is a shortage of supply of homes on the market and are therefore throwing caution to the wind...

Prime Central London’s residential values have risen 4.3 per cent over the past 12 months and now average £2.3m per property...

Rightmove says the seasonal 1.1 per cent dip in average asking prices coming to market in the past month is the...

The new Propcision website says it now has a tool which allows users to see the marketing histories of London properties...

Rightmove has used its latest monthly house price index to launch its bid to push up its visits to record levels...

An insurance company claims that around 60 per cent of estate agents do not check with their vendor clients about disputes...

A central London agency has launched a ‘try before you buy’ lettings offer on an apartment being marketed for sale at...

Rightmove says the average asking price of a home coming to the market has reached an all-time high of £296,549 despite...

One of the UK franchise holders of US-based Keller Williams has accused this country's agency industry of being "complacent and unimaginative"...

Rightmove says the price of property coming to market this month has hit a new national record, up 0.9 per cent...

A High Street estate agent has cautioned others within the industry against being tempted to go down the route of charging...

How do you best sum up the current market status quo? Given the specific regional nature of the housing market in...

An analysis of homes on sale six months after the scrapping of the ‘slab’ system of stamp duty has revealed a...

The average asking price of a home coming to the market has hit a record high for the second month in...

Rightmove, which for many years has published a heavily-publicised monthly monitor of asking prices of homes on sale, is now extending...

The high-end market in parts of prime central London is in the doldrums because of a glut of £2m-plus homes put...

Buyers are finding haggling over house prices increasingly difficult with the typical property currently reduced by just 6.05 per cent from...

Some agents have recently suggested that the prime central London market is sluggish in the extreme - but now one agency...

The unexpected outcome of the general election has given a shot in the arm to sellers and agents leading to a...

With some agents squabbling about whether there has been or will be a post-election bounce, Rightmove has come down firmly insisting...

Rightmove is reporting its highest ever average asking price as a result of a slump in the number of homes being...