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Mortgage rates may be falling but tougher lending criteria is stifling many borrowers, including high earners. Research by Investec has found the...

Nationwide has cautioned property market commentators about being too optimistic as its own house price index showed average prices surprisingly rose...

New research aims to address the age-old debate of which generation has it worse when it comes to housing affordability. Quick-buy firm...

The proportion of take-home pay that first-time buyers are having to put towards mortgage repayments is returning to levels last seen...

Automated rental payment specialists PayProp recently held a high-profile event in London - PayProp Connect - which included a number of...

Asking prices for typical first-time buyer homes and equivalent rents have risen three times faster compared with the pre-pandemic years, Rightmove...

Almost three quarters of property professionals agree that estate agent pay is too low. A poll conducted by Estate Agent Today found 73%...

Homeowners are now earning almost as much from their property as they are from their salary after prices hit new highs. The...

The Nationwide has released data listing the most and least affordable locations in Britain - background information for agents. Some entries are...

High house prices relative to average earnings make raising a deposit a big barrier for first time buyers, a new study...

A new league table of earnings by estate agents, based on basic salary and commission combined, suggests that UK agents earn...

Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...

Since 2017, The DPS has used the data we collect to track the rental values of properties across all regions of...

Estate agency comparison website GetAgent has calculated the typical fees charged to vendors in different parts of the country. It says agents...

Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...

After a challenging period for the UK property market, recovery is very much on the cards and the end to uncertainty...

UK estate agents are amongst the worst paid in any country in the world according to new data. Digital marketing firm Yell...

After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...

Major UK cities have seen average house price rises of 54 per cent in the past decade - an increase of...

New figures produced by Zoopla’s research team shows for the first time the huge scale of regional variations in terms of...

The National Audit Office says many users of Help To Buy would have been able to purchase a home anyway, without...

There’s a silver lining to another set of stodgy housing market figures - at least one sector, for those buying their...

Monthly mortgage payments as a proportion of income have dropped to 31 per cent now from 43 per cent a decade...

In a surprise announcement, house prices picked up in July with the annual rate of growth rising from 1.8 per cent...

Lloyds Bank has revealed a league table of the cities which have seen the highest price growth over the past decade...

Data from Hometrack shows that the gap between average earnings and house prices has reached an all-time high in London.  The price...

The average cost of moving home in the UK has increased by £628 over the past year from £10,966 to £11,624...

Government schemes like Help To Buy, supposedly assisting more people get on the ladder, have little impact on improving social mobility...

Home ownership rates among 25-year-olds have plummeted by more than half in 20 years, council leaders have warned.  New analysis for the...

Housing data consultancy Hometrack says the disparity between average earnings and house prices is reaching record levels in certain parts of...

House prices were unchanged in October according to the latest Nationwide house price index, but a typical home now costs six...

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...

Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, the Halifax, says the housing market will slow next year with average price rises of four to...