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In the first of a short series of articles, David Beaumont, managing director of Compliance Matters, casts a professional eye over...

Britain is in the midst of a senior living housing crisis – according to CBRE, an undersupply of 614,000 mid-market senior...

A third of those opting to move home in the current market are downsizers, research claims. However, it’s not the increased cost...

Agency software and CRM provider Street.co.uk has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) to help users write property descriptions. Street AI uses...

It is no secret that our climate is getting warmer. 2022 was one of the six warmest years on record globally,...

The level of sales agreed has fallen below its normal market trend for this time of year but the “right-priced” properties...

Property supply appears weighted toward couples and small families, an agent has claimed. Analysis by self-employed agency brand eXp UK analysed current...

Sotheby’s Realty International is set to return to the small screen next week. Its agents will feature in Channel 4's prime residential property...

New analysis from Rightmove claims to reveal the cheapest UK city for a first time buyers to get on the property...

Housing policy formation must go beyond electoral cycles, academics have warned. A group of Cambridge University alumni has teamed up to urge...

All landlords need to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPG), with few exemptions. As a property writer, landlord and Domestic Energy...

Sellers are becoming more realistic about pricing despite asking prices of typical first-time buyer properties hitting a new high, Rightmove claims. The...

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is believed to have snapped up the historic Brightwell Manor as his new home. Johnson, who was...

A property group is the latest to call for a Stamp Duty overhaul in today's Budget. The National Association of Property Buyers’ (NAPB)...

More than half of homebuyers have become more willing to compromise in the search for their next home, new research reveals. Analysis...

Agents may like to market properties as “unique” and “exclusive” but an agency and auction brand may have a decent excuse...

Industry analyst and and chair of The Home Buying and Selling Group Kate Faulkner, has called for the Government to stop agents being...

Record energy bills and the cost-of-living crisis has prompted a surge in downsizing activity over the past 12 months, new research...

There are a few common questions that arise when the issue of mould in rented properties is mentioned: what causes it,...

The boundaries of prime central London are expanding, new research claims. The PCL market is generally described as the exclusive districts of...

I’ve been on Twitter for a decade and have 23,500 followers - a gratifying number and of those a couple of...

New research claims to show what buyers most want to see in photographs on a sales listing - and it may...

It’s the oddest thing. Surely, the most fundamental requirement of an estate agent having won an instruction, is to get it...

You've finally found the perfect house. It's within your budget, has the desired number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and even comes...

Agents and other property professionals have, perhaps unsurprisingly, reacted positively to rumours of a Stamp Duty cut. Prime Minister Liz Truss and...

Property data and estate agent prospecting platform, Homesearch has unveiled a new property search engine that it hopes will transform the...

Empty nesters may be considering downsizing their home this September as their children set off to university, whilst other downsizers are...

Downsizing could become more attractive to older homeowners as the cost of living crisis intensifies, Savills claims. It comes as analysis by...

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

Homeowners are being warned that their properties may inadvertently end up the Secret Property section of Boomin’s portal. Boomin’s Secret Property tool...

It is no longer significantly cheaper to rent compared with making monthly mortgage payments, Rightmove claims, but raising a deposit remains...

In the first few months of 2022, agents have experienced some of the lowest stock levels in several years. The number...

More than four in 10 owners have significantly repurposed part of their homes during the pandemic says Zoopla. Amongst the 41 per...

The current ratings of the Energy Performance Certificate are under review according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy. A...

Research suggests there are substantial numbers of older Londoners using too-large properties but unable to downsize because of a lack of...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...

This year, Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007. New data, from Connells-owned agency Hamptons, shows that...

A high-speed internet connection is the second most important factor for buyers after property size, a survey claims. And the study -...

Agents are being offered a theoretical £300,000 if they introduce a buyer willing to pay £30m for a mansion on sale in...

A portal says many buyers feel disappointed when viewing a property becuase it is typically smaller than agents’ photographs suggest.  MoveStreets claims...

British homebuyers take an average of 25 seconds to decide whether a house is right for them, according to Purplebricks. As a...

Prices in prime central London have risen for the past two quarters, prompting a tentative claim that the market may be...

As we move into the autumn of 2021, what the coming year has in store for estate agents is something we...

More buyers in prime central London are choosing larger properties - a function of the pandemic and the race for space. That’s...

360 tour technology company Made Snappy has grown rapidly over the past 18 months and whilst many agents have grasped the...

A company says it’s gathering £500m in funding to purchase properties for a “gradual home ownership” scheme - a variation on...

New research from Zoopla appears to show that buyers typically move further away for larger homes rather than smaller or same-size...

High end agency Savills says prime central London remains “relatively subdued” ahead of the return of foreign travel and overseas buyers. PCL...

A home within 500 metres of a tube or railway station in London will carry a massive premium compared to a...

A global financial software and analytics firm says it’s launching a new PropTech tool which promises in the near future to...

One year on from the UK’s first stay-at-home order, London has been overtaken as the most searched-for location on Rightmove, according...

The importance of marketing properties is something that is often undervalued. Big budgets are dedicated to selling everyday items such as...

A London agency says it's discovered the five key priorities that buyers want, following a survey of its own database. “Lockdown and...

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

Have you ever wondered how industry-specific software and property portals have influenced the typical estate agency of today? A new book, which...

Rightmove has given a regional breakdown in where  buyer demand is strongest in the past two weeks. It’s perhaps no surprise that...

Family houses are under-occupied and only incentives to downsize can help improve the housing market - with a stamp duty cut...

The number of full property details viewed on Rightmove - a key indicator of market health - is already stronger than...

Hello and welcome to this week’s list of good work - yes, despite the virus lockdown.  Earlier this week we featured many...

A legal challenge by HM Revenue and Customs has stopped a bid to secure a stamp duty discount on a property. The...

There’s been an average asking price rise of 2.3 per cent in the past four weeks - the biggest ever increase...

There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...

Data scientists have released a study into the characteristics of homes and how they give away the likely voting intentions of...

If agents ran their databases more efficiently, the property portals might find themselves redundant. Controversial opening statement aside, the reality is that...

This week, I want to take a look at the Israeli startup, Venn, an urban revitalisation firm which has recently received...

Research from OnTheMarket shows that 40 per cent of London homes costing around £1m have only two bedrooms or fewer. And only...

The issue of ‘intergenerational fairness’ has been raised in recent weeks, some might say somewhat ironically by a House of Lords’...

Barely a day goes by when we don’t read a new report on the unscrupulous practices of landlords; of the sub-standard...

A family is raffling a £3m home on the Hampshire/Dorset border after a series of sales fell through. Mark and Sharon Beresford...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new guide in a bid to end what it calls inconsistencies and...

It’s now almost a month since the government introduced new rules on Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO), as part of its...

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

The perils of property competitions and raffles have once again been demonstrated, this time with the Advertising Standards Authority upholding three...

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

Major auction companies continue to claim successes despite the challenging housing market. Auction House says a recent auction of London properties produced...

Some 45 per cent of so-called Empty Nesters - older owners whose children have left home permanently - say they are...

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...

A property technology analyst has floated the idea that portals could become eclipsed by powerful alternatives such as Google, triggered by...

Three councils are encouraging local residents to sign a new register which aims to bring more quality homes for sale to...

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

Shelter, the campaigning charity that has been hugely critical of private landlords and letting agents in recent years, has now launched...

  You’ll see a lot of 10th anniversary stories in the property industry and consumer media in the coming days: early August...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

The Conservatives now say they are not resuscitating Home Information Packs, despite a suggestion by a prominent former minister that they "had...

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...

After years of surveys suggesting the UK’s new-build homes were getting smaller, and may even be the smallest in much of...

The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped into a dispute over a property listing which claimed a property was a two bedroom...

Auction rooms across the UK are filled with people looking to buy property, from bargain hunters to seasoned investors, ensuring that...

What is Properstar? Properstar helps UK estate agents cross the chasm from local to global in respect of advertising their properties. Using...

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

Summer finally arrived, the transport system (as always) went into meltdown, everyone complained that it was too hot and the sun...

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

Rightmove says fewer new sellers are coming to market, with this month’s total some 5.3 per cent below the monthly average...

Dear Sales Doctor, I'm aware I sound robotic when qualifying an applicant and don't know how to change it; any ideas? When an...

A fascinating report commissioned by online agency easyProperty has given the lowdown on what house buying might be like in 2020...

I started work in 1966 in Exeter with Fox & Sons then moved to a local company in Honiton soon after....

Rightmove is reporting this morning that there has been a 6.6 per cent increase in the number ot homes with two...

The influential lobbying group the HomeOwners’ Alliance wants estate agents to quote the price per square foot of properties to allow...