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Compared with a decade ago, today's first-time buyers are older, more likely to buy with a partner and more likely to...
17 February 2024
From: Features
UK property professionals should look to Norway when assessing how to improve the home buying process, a housing minister has claimed. Speaking...
07 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Compared with a decade ago, today's first-time buyers are older, more likely to buy with a partner and more likely to...
03 February 2024
From: Features
In simple terms, as you are probably aware, ‘lenders’ are the organisations who loan you something, in this case money to...
17 May 2023
From: Sponsored Content
As an estate agent, you know that securing the sale is just step one of a successful journey. But with issues...
01 April 2023
From: Features
What’s the difference between Centralised Ledger Technology and Decentralised Ledger Technology? Repeat after me; centralised and decentralised ledgers and Distributed Ledger Technology...
04 November 2022
From: Sponsored Content
The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...
12 March 2022
From: Features
Results of a study of 2,000 adults suggest that almost one in five of them want to buy or invest in...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
There are plenty in the estate agency and lettings world who don’t like the concept of Airbnb and similar enterprises. But they...
16 October 2021
From: Features
Purplebricks recently launched a meditation service to help buyers and sellers manage stress. You might disagree with the idea, but moving...
04 November 2020
From: Features
The scale of the problems facing many prospective buyers has been set out in a survey showing as many as one-third...
15 September 2020
From: Breaking News
I want to talk to you about new ways to sell homes. Let's not encourage people to sell but just swap...
12 August 2020
From: Breaking News
The government has been called upon by one of the industry’s most respected bodies to announce a stamp duty holiday to...
09 April 2020
From: Breaking News
With Christmas less than four weeks away (yes, really) the countdown to the festive season begins tomorrow when December begins. Charity...
30 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Breakdowns within property chains are the most common cause of fall throughs, according to a new study. Over the last ten years,...
25 May 2018
From: Breaking News
Hands up if you’ve read all of the property reports that have been published in the past week or so? Forever...
29 November 2017
From: Breaking News
In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...
02 September 2017
From: Features
As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...
04 August 2017
From: Features
The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...
17 February 2017
From: Features
An analysis by Savills shows that so-called ‘additional homes’ - that is, those carrying a three per cent stamp duty surcharge...
06 February 2017
From: Breaking News
The government’s blizzard of New Year announcements about new homes has received a distinctly frosty welcome from many within the property...
04 January 2017
From: Breaking News
As with finance broking, there can be many frustrations that come with being an estate agent – I perhaps don’t need...
30 September 2016
From: Features
A firm says it wants to help agents and sellers frustrated by a stagnating housing market to short-let homes using controversial...
15 June 2016
From: Breaking News
While buy-to-let lenders brace themselves for further interventions as part of proposals currently being drawn up by the Prudential Regulation Authority...
01 June 2016
From: Features
A top consultancy firm is warning that the stamp duty surcharge coming into effect at the end of this week may lead...
31 March 2016
From: Breaking News
A group of leading tax experts claims the stamp duty surcharge coming into effect one week from today will hurt the...
25 March 2016
From: Breaking News
There’s bad news today for Labour members living in homes valued at £1m or more - one of their own MPs...