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Winkworth says the central London market has picked up from its lows of a year or more ago, but warns that...

Rightmove is this morning reporting a huge fall in the number of new sellers coming to the market - a drop...

The listings website Home, which conducts a monthly survey of asking prices and wider market monitors, is reporting a show 10...

Two very different views on Brexit have come forward in the past 24 hours from different players in the industry. First off,...

The latest Rightmove asking price index indicates a smaller than usual autumn bounce - that’s a sign, the portal says, of...

A London estate agency chain says It’s seen a 59 per cent surge in the number of its clients who have...

Stories with good news about the prime central London market seem few and far between but the latest figures from B2B...

A London agent is urging rivals to provide realistic valuations, even if vendors want more and despite temptations to over-value to...

A pessimistic set of figures on asking prices, transaction volumes and stock levels culminates in Rightmove urging vendors to be willing...

The London market has “plummeted” because almost a third of vendors have cut their asking prices in anticipation of Brexit. Using data...

Rightmove says the number of homes stuck in what it calls “the legal log jam” is at its highest for over...

Estate agents have collectively been fiercely criticised for allegedly exaggerating valuations to win instructions, doing a disservice to vendors and not...

A property industry trade body claims 85 per cent of agents believes a ‘staged’ property sells three times faster than a...

The latest survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests that last month’s optimistic assessment of the housing market has...

Despite optimistic reports on prime London’s housing performance from some sources in recent weeks, figures from subscription service LonRes paint a...

Sellers across England and Wales achieve an average 95.94 per cent of their asking price according to research from estate agency...

The price of property coming to market fell by 0.2 per cent or an average of £656 in the past month...

New figures from the National Association of Estate Agents suggest that supply is at last creeping back up to seasonal norms...

The latest asking prices data from Rightmove suggests that the national housing market is being dragged down by poor performance in...

The gap between average asking prices and average selling prices has increased in recent months according to Zoopla. Its latest study of...

Rightmove’s latest house price statistics reveal that asking prices for newly-marketed property are on average 0.9 per cent higher than a...

The average time on the market for a property is soaring across the UK thanks to Brexit uncertainty, according to the...

There’s been a spring bounce with prices of new-to-the market properties increasing an average of 1.1 per cent in the past...

There’s anger in the industry over an article in The Times which accused agents of overvaluing properties - although why this was happening...

The spring market has got off to a subdued start according to Rightmove - and the portal says more buyers are...

Latest data from property platform Home suggests that instruction numbers across the UK as a whole are down four per cent...

It’s not just the high-end market for homes in the south east that’s hit by Brexit according to the Guild of...

As the sales market across much of Britain appears to be mired in political and economic uncertainty, figures from Scotland appear...

A new survey claims the market is at its worst for eight years. The latest market snapshot from property platform Home says...

The latest Rightmove price index suggests that homes are at their most affordable level for some years thanks to wage growth...

A respected property investment consultancy is warning that the current premium put on the prices of new-build homes - around 15...

Gloomy statements from some industry organisations have suggested the market is in trouble thanks to Brexit uncertainty but Rightmove says visits...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have fallen for the second month in a row - and Rightmove says...

A senior figure in the Knight Frank agency says those buyers who may be expecting Brexit-inspired bargains in the so-called ‘super...

Rightmove is this morning reporting that the asking price of property coming to market has fallen 1.7 per cent in the...

The market is now over-supplied with homes to sell while at the same time demand is dipping and there are widespread...

Homes that require major structural work have asking prices which are on average £40,000 below the market norm, according to research...

Zoopla says 38 per cent of properties on sale have had their asking prices slashed. That’s a five per cent rise since...

A leading London estate agency is reporting a surge in overseas buyers sealing deals ahead of the government’s new stamp duty...

We’re sorry to be starting the week with more evidence of the housing market in the doldrums, but Rightmove’s latest index...

A buying agency says it has secured a prime London property for one of its clients at almost 40 per cent...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom as the autumn market gets into gear, with a surge in buyers and a one-month rise...

House prices fell further this month as the slowdown tightened its grip according to he latest data from property platform Home. It...

There’s little doubt that downsizing is less of a factor in the housing market than it used to be - so...

Rightmove says the housing market is now into a ‘summer sale’ as newly-marketed property shows an average asking price fall of...

A leading buying agency is warning about asking prices that are higher than those acceptable to mortgage companies who therefore down-value...

The price per square foot for homes in central London is currently £1,194 - that’s 16.9 per cent below its 2014...

Figures from Savills suggest that there’s currently an average 1.14 price adjustments per sale across the prime regional markets of the...

A report in the Financial Times lays bare the scale of the housing market downturn in central London - it suggests...

Rightmove claims that homes with sea views attract an average price premium of 29 per cent. The analysis - aimed at publicising a...

Asking prices are at a virtual standstill as the summer lull kicks in, according to the latest Rightmove index. New seller asking...

There’s more gloomy reading for vendors from a new report by website Home, which says the volume of properties slashing their...

An estate agency chain has produced strikingly successful sales figures for the first half of the year - evidence, it says,...

A major hybrid agency says there is a huge ‘reality gap’ between the typical asking price of homes on sale and the...

Summer is traditionally the time of the year when the property market slows down, with people going away on their holidays...

The average asking price of newly marketed property continues to rise according to Rightmove - and this is despite a dip...

More stock and longer times on the market are combining to create a surge in asking price reductions according to a...

Property sellers in the South of England are having to accept asking reductions in order to achieve a sale.  Data from Hometrack...

Property sellers in Scotland are profiting from buyers' willingness to pay above asking price for a home.  This is according to portal...

The latest data from Rightmove indicates that the average national asking price has reached another all-time high of £308,075 following a...

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has decided to keep the base rate unchanged at 0.5 per cent this month. The...

The sun has finally returned to ours skies and you’re on the lookout for a little bit of summer reading. As...

Prices of new-to-the-market property rose by a modest 0.4 per cent over the past month says Rightmove - but that’s enough...

Average prices dropped another 1.1 per cent in prime central London in the year to March according to new figures released...

Average asking price of newly-marketed property have jumped 1.5 per cent - or over £4,500 - in the past month, says...

Rightmove’s latest assessment of the housing market suggests that Newport in Gwent is the fastest moving area in Britain for vendors. A...

A survey by consumer body Which? suggests askng prices and agents' fees are the most significant factors considered by a vendor choosing an...

Investment consultancy London Central Portfolio has launched a new index which it claims uses “the most comprehensive data available” to assess...

High-profile buying agency Black Brick has highlighted the scale of reductions now being made by sellers of some trophy properties in...

A former president of the National Association of Estate Agents has attacked “irresponsible agents” for over-valuing asking prices in London in...

The well-respected buying agency Black Brick has revealed the scale of discounts it secures on prime properties being sold for different...

Scottish portal s1homes.com has reported that the average property in Scotland sold for £10,000 higher than its asking price during the...

Rightmove says it has enjoyed its highest ever monthly number of visitors - 141 million in January. They spent a total of...

House price indices provided each month by Halifax and the Nationwide have been branded as “misguiding” and “out of date” and...

Homes for sale in some parts of inner London are seeing price discounts of up to 10 per cent says Hometrack...

The housing market has returned to stability with exchanges up one per cent year on year and the average house price...

A poll of over 2,500 first time buyers suggests that on average they pay £5,300 less than the asking price -...

Rightmove says its visits so far in January are running over nine per cent higher than the same period a year...

No fewer than 85 per cent of properties sold for less than the asking price in November, the highest seen since...

Rightmove has revealed the top 10 locations outside London where asking prices grew most and where homes sold fastest - and...

Asking prices are being cut more heavily than at any time in the past six years says Zoopla.  It says just over...

Rightmove is warning that the asking price of property coming to market has fallen by 2.6 per cent in the past...

The average home in England and Wales now sells for very nearly four per cent under its original asking price - a...

Sellers have launched "their own sale" in response to the stagnating market by slashing asking prices according to Rightmove - but...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a downbeat snapshot of the current housing market with "subdued sales trends" across...

Garrington Property Finders says some two-thirds of homes in two high-value parts of prime central London have been on sale for...

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...