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Agents have pledged to keep a close eye on planning reforms amid a proposed overhaul announced in the Queen’s Speech yesterday. Prince...

Propertymark is urging restraint on the part of the Welsh Government as it moves to tackle what it sees as the...

The government has failed to take the opportunity of the Spring Statement to provide clarity on its business rates reform agenda,...

A rural body in Wales has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals for draconian new taxes on second homes.  Earlier this...

Almost exactly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the back of a spate on mainstream news stories about prime...

The Welsh Government has announced an increase to the maximum level of council tax premiums for second homes, as well as...

Timothy Douglas, Head of Policy and Campaigns at Propertymark, analyses the impact that the lack of available data is having on...

A consultation exercise on government proposals for its business rates review is totally “underwhelming” according to property agency Colliers. The consultation ends...

Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...

The UK is reported to have dropped down the league table of governments that secure vast amounts of income from property...

A long-standing estate agency with three major branches has shut after 27 years of trading - blaming online competition and ‘race...

The Budget has proven more generous than many expected - and with most property taxation left unchanged. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has made...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has hinted for the second time that he is looking towards property to help fund his...

New figures from HM Treasury have revealed that businesses, including a number of major agencies, have returned £1.3 billion in furlough...

A plea has been made to the government to help small companies and stop letting online firms off the hook. The Federation...

A prominent property consultancy is urging the government to ensure that holiday home owners pay more tax.  Colliers claims local authorities are...

A group of MPs has suggested the government consider a “proportional property tax” to replace the current council tax, in a...

Another major agency group has agreed to repay substantial sums it claimed under the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, introduced to...

Foxtons is facing another shareholder revolt over the bonus being given to its chief executive despite taking £7m in state Covid...

Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the...

Some 30 tax documents have been released by HM Treasury this afternoon - a mix of responses to past consultations, proposals...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak says the stamp duty holiday on properties up to £500,000 will be extended from March 31 to June 30; from...

With just two days to go, it's fair to say the property industry is eagerly awaiting Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget statement...

Almost a year ago the government announced that estate and lettings agencies were to be included in the business rates relief...

The Northern Research Group, which has the backing of over 50 Conservative MPs in the north of England, wants the Chancellor...

Propertymark, the overarching body aiming to bring five different associations (ARLA, NAEA, NAVA, ICBA and APIP) into a single brand, was...

Propertymark is the only agency trade body with sufficient influence on, and links with, government to achieve major gains for the...

The Chancellor has announced new measures to help businesses in the light of the lockdown announced in the past 24 hours. The...

Here’s hoping you managed to have as good a Christmas and New Year as Covid rules allowed. Journalism in early January is...

The UK has topped the rankings for the highest property taxes as a percentage of overall taxation in the developed world...

More than 24 hours after the government's announcement about the compulsory wearing of facemasks by shoppers in England, and there is...

NAEA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

Agencies, many of which campaigned vigorously to be included in the business rates holiday announced in March by the government, have...

If there are agents still uncertain as to whether their company or themselves as individuals are claiming the maximum business support,...

In response to the current coronavirus pandemic, which is having such an impact on all parts of life, including the property...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

Estate and lettings agencies that have closed temporarily as a result of the Coronavirus lockdown are to be to exempted from...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column . Before we get on with it, a reminder to...

The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...

Beleaguered estate agency group Countrywide has asked the government to give agents a business rates holiday. Measures announced in last week’s Budget...

A surveyors’ firm has been wound up after courts declared that it had misled clients over the success of its core...

The three leading portals have rejected an appeal to give the industry a payment holiday to help firms through the Coronavirus...

There will be a two per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of UK investment properties by non-resident overseas buyers...

The government has dismissed a request from the NAEA and ARLA Propertymark to review business rates for agency offices on High...

The NAEA and ARLA have written a joint letter to government on the impact of business rates on High Street agency...

The Leaders Romans Group has extended its activities into the commercial world with the acquisition of chartered surveying company Dunlop Heywood. Dunlop...

‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’. So is written on the tombstone of the father...

It’s that time again. Each year I take a look at newspaper readership - not from the angle of journalists, but...

Hello and welcome to this half-term week’s PJT, your regular Monday opportunity to catch up with the key personnel changes in...

A new property management firm claims that an average of nine estate agencies have gone bust each week since 2010.  Apropos -...

A business rates tax break which benefits holiday home owners is to be reviewed by ministers, who have now launched a formal...

Stamp duty relief for first time buyers of full-priced houses and apartments is to be extended to first time buyers of...

Perhaps it’s been our pre-occupation with Brexit, or on the other hand maybe we’re bored with politics, but this year’s Budget...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

The agonisingly painful decline of Countrywide continues, with no one sure whether it is the darkest hour before the dawn or...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt is one of 10 property industry entries in the ‘Power 100 Women’ list compiled by business...

There is yet more opposition to proposals for the reform of land and estate ownership in Scotland, put forward by the...

There has been a strong reaction against proposals to reform the ownership of estates and other substantial land holdings in Scotland. The...