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In a marketplace as competitive as the property industry, you may think that generating leads is the most important focus for...

One of the country’s leading estate agents says shifting the burden of stamp duty away from the buyer - which is...

The government has published its response to an MPs’ committee’s comments on overseas buyers of properties in the UK - and...

A leading London estate agency with US connections says there has been a surge in high net worth American buyers in...

A trade association of agents selling properties overseas has launched a new feature which it claims will give buyers greater security...

The recent announcement of a clicktopurchase partnership demonstrates some much-needed progression from Rightmove. In doing so, however, it could be said it...

Two of the highest profile independent estate agencies in the north of England have merged following a spectacular acquisition. Linley & Simpson...

Online estate agency Yopa is warning of price falls ahead in London and south east England - although price rises elsewhere...

Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has expressed an interest in switching the stamp duty burden from buyers to sellers. Until now Johnson’s comments on...

Winkworth has a new office in its network, in the fashionable Suffolk town of Southwold. Independent agency Halford Wetmore has been acquired...

Some of the most radical reforms ever proposed for estate and letting agents are expected to be signed off today by...

A leading agent has suggested that some parts of the UK would face “a property exodus” if Boris Johnson’s proposals for...

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

It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum result in June 2016, and we’re still no clearer on when...

Auction companies have issued statements boasting of their own performance as old school companies and new entrants vie for market share. Firstly...

A more stable trend is now emerging in the UK housing market, according to the latest results for the RICS UK...

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

A new website devoted solely to prime off-market properties is looking for agents who will use it to find buyers seeking...

Conservative leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson's plans to reverse stamp duty changes could help to kickstart the prime property market, according to...

Property sellers have been urged to list their properties now in the hope of selling their properties for maximum value within...

Property portal Rightmove has confirmed that it is trialling an option which allows buyers of commercial properties to submit offers online...

Stories of a slow property market due to an ongoing lack of supply and Brexit woes have been well-documented in recent...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

Fine & Country, the international network of prime estate agencies, has this week announced the opening of two new offices. The first...

The head of a website that contrasts the performances of rival estate agents is urging buyers to ‘drill down’ and find...

A leasehold reform campaigner says government proposals risk creating a two-tier market and do nothing to assist leaseholders already hit by...

Gazumping is alive and well in much of the country, despite the slowdown in the property market, according to new research...

Purplebricks has released figures which appear to show it is one of the most successful agencies - or perhaps THE most...

Online agency Housesimple has become the first in the UK to sell houses for free. It says that based on the average...

Phil Spencer and his advice website IQ have endorsed the concept of legally binding reservation agreements and digital legal packs through...

The income required for first time buyers to purchase in the three most expensive UK cities has fallen slightly according to...

The modern method of auction is proving to revolutionise the way properties are bought and sold across the UK.  By putting the...

MyBid4It is an online auction platform which has been developed to partner with Estate Agents and revolutionise the way properties are...

The number of cash buyers in London has recently plummeted by very nearly a fifth - and every other part of...

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

The Federation of Independent Agents has agreed another new partnership with an industry supplier. The arrangement will allow FIA agent members nine...

A national newspaper claims that the 20 millionth domestic EPC in the UK is set to be issued in the next...

A timely new survey suggests that 75 per cent of buyers give at least some consideration to what their potential neighbours...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

Homes in central parts of London sold for a typical 11.5 per cent below asking price in the first three months...

An online auction service which only came into existence in September last year claims to have 150 partner estate agents already,...

Too many sellers are wedded to the idea that prices will rise after a Brexit deal is resolved, says one of the...

When employing a new member of staff there are a lot of checks and balances put in place by any business...

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

A high-end estate agency is reporting a dramatic rise in the number of US buyers in London as they have taken...

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

A firm that offers a white-labelled online agency platform to traditional High Street agents has signed up a new customer. love2move was...

A buying agent has revealed how she advises potential clients to use portals when looking for a property to buy -...

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

Knight Frank says Brexit-related uncertainty has curbed trading activity across all UK residential markets over the last 12 months - and...

It’s London Tech Week, everybody! The sprawling city-wide event taking in dozens of conferences, events, workshops, panel debates and so on,...

A PropTech firm has repeated claims it first made in March about allegedly inaccurate floorpan measurement and says a new initiative...

An analysis of transactions agreed this spring suggests there will be a surge in prices which will ultimately be reflected later...

Average UK house prices rose 0.5 per cent in May according to the latest Halifax house price index as the long...

A new service which aims to provide estate and letting agents with what it calls “game changing” access to property data...

PropTech company Landmark has thrown its weight behind the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ new Home Survey Standard, which is now out...

Demand for shared ownership properties will rise by over 15,000 units a year when Help To Buy comes to an end...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is running a Certified Property Measurer course aimed at training agents and others in the...

FirstHomeCoach, the brainchild of a former HSBC banker, has launched with the aim of providing “every service” a first time buyer...

Properties sold off market by a London agency found buyers more quickly, and for nearer the asking price, than those on the...

Welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - because last week there was a Bank Holiday, we have a bumper edition...

A volume house builder is launching a TV advertising campaign claiming its properties are a “premium alternative” to second hand homes...

In the first Q&A Natter for a while, I catch up with Angelica Donati - CEO of Donati Immobiliare Group, PropTech...

It may well seem that the government is pre-occupied with one issue, and one issue alone. While preparations for Brexit take up a...

A recently-launched free-to-list portal says it’s uniquely positioned to attract overseas buyers and investors interested in purchasing in major UK cities. Residential...

The number of sales agreed per branch has increased for the first time this year, rising from an average of seven...

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

New research suggests it takes, on average, six months and 24 days to buy a home. The study, for PropTech virtual tours...

New data from respected property consultancy LonRes shows that prices in prime central London fell 9.7 per cent in the 12...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

In recent years click & collect has become a popular way for retailers, supermarkets and online shopping sites such as Amazon...

The Property Ombudsman says its members must in future disclose referral fees in a bid to make previously-hidden costs open and...

House prices have remained roughly stagnant according to the latest figures produced by the Office for National Statistics and HM Land...

As we move closer to the halfway point of 2019, property market conditions for agents and their clients remain challenging. Brexit may...

One of the capital’s most outspoken estate agents at the upper end of the market has given eye-watering statistics to show...

We’ve reached the final instalment of my market transformation do’s and don’ts.  In previous articles, we’ve looked at: Do encourage, don’t deter;...

An IT firm says small and medium-sized estate agencies without the infrastructure of large corporates are putting themselves and their customers...

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...

The National Association of Estate Agents has welcomed the commitment by the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate the mis-selling of...

Agents have reacted gloomily to the release of figures showing that the number of new mortgages offered to both movers and...

An expert who has invested in an online agency in the past has slammed Purplebricks’ business model. James Max, who presents the...

Reforms to the house buying process in England and Wales to bring it more into line with Scotland could slash the...

The trade body representing so-called quick sale companies is marking five years in business with two feathers in its cap. Firstly the...

Consumer habits have changed massively over the past few years, and regardless of which market you operate in, being able to...

The scores have been counted and the results are in for the 2019 ESTAS Awards, sponsored by Zoopla. On Friday, over 1,000...

A top London estate agency says interest in the capital's residential property from US and Indian buyers has soared over the...

Welcome back to the latest edition of Property Jobs Today (PJT) after a Bank Holiday break. Each week, we round up...

An online auction platform has launched a new instant property purchase feature as part of its expansion plans. Under The Hammer, a...

Fresh analysis by Zoopla has revealed Britain's fastest moving property markets with the lowest number of average days for a seller...

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has released its annual report for 2018, showing a 16% rise in the number of complaints made...

Some of the most expensive properties in London are selling typically between 13 and 21 per cent off the asking price. And...

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

1989 was a significant time for the property industry: it marked the beginning of the end of a period of unprecedented...

The breathing space offered by the October Brexit deadline and the receding prospect of a No Deal exit from the EU...

A new and comprehensive analysis of the housing market shows a jaw-dropping collapse in stamp duty revenue going to the Treasury...

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

With the UK population spending longer in rental accommodation, due to the upfront expense of buying a home, their time and...

A statement from London-focussed agency Chestertons claims to have bucked the poor market in the capital - and says it’s partly...

Data produced by the government showed that some 211,000 homes have been bought using the Help to Buy: Equity Loan. The scheme...

There may be rain outside but the housing market is now officially in a drought according to the National Association of...

Respected investment consultancy London Central Portfolio is warning that “sales go on falling and falling” across the capital, fuelled by Brexit...

A lawyer appears to be suggesting that ‘clean and tidy’ clauses be inserted into house purchase deals, allowing buyers to retain...

An estate agency has produced figures showing a 12.5 per cent slump in the number of homes listed to sell in...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...

The trade body for ‘home stagers’ says that properties that have been dressed sell three times faster than those that have...

House prices in 20 UK cities analysed by Zoopla show an average 1.7 per cent increase over the 12 months to...

New figures from HM Revenue and Customs suggest that stamp duty receipts have fallen by no less than £1 billion. The drop...

Residential property transactions rose 1.4 per cent in March, making them a healthy 6.8 per cent higher than in March 2018. Data...

It’s a new index but it tells an old story - how prime central London prices have dropped significantly since their...

Research  by HouseSimple suggests that over 31 per cent of homes currently on sale in major UK towns and cities have...

A top London estate agent says the humble For Sale board remains the cheapest and most effective marketing tool - even...

A PropTech firm that lists a customer’s home with successive estate agents until it is sold has raised £500,000 of startup...

The leasehold scandal continues to generate plenty of column inches, with fresh stories emerging almost daily of people living in unsellable...

Zoopla has been spelling out more details of prospective buyers’ and renters’ patterns of portal-watching and how they relate to leads...

A new housing market survey paints a bleaker picture than that from Rightmove earlier this week - and instead speaks of...

Q: What does it say on your business card? Charlie Lancaster,  Managing Director, m: 07976 507107 e:charlie.lancaster@mybid4it.com,  Blake House, 18 Blake...

On the same day as one of the most optimistic Rightmove market snapshots of recent months, the latest mortgage monitor from...

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...

No, this isn’t about Brexit. But as the saga of leaving the EU is likely to bring about the downfall of...

A ‘property potential’ portal which claims to be highly successful across the south east of England is now going to launch...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says house price sentiment improved by a small amount last month for the first time...

First time buyers purchasing new homes using the government’s Help to Buy equity loan scheme paid on average 12 per cent...

The average time it takes for a single first time buyer to save for a 15 per cent deposit in England...

Experienced sales trainer Boyd Mayover, co-founder of Sales Doctors, explains how agents can overcome price objectives, impress prospective clients and offer...

HM Revenue & Customs is set to pocket £60m less from one of its property taxes than it forecast. An analysis of...

Agents boasting qualifications could generate higher fees and more clients, especially if they are ‘ahead of the game’ and improve their...

UK estate agents charge the lowest commission out of any nation in the European Union, according to a recent study by...

At the end of a week consisting of largely depressing market reports, new data from Knight Frank suggests that the bad...

As many as one transaction in three is now undertaken by a so-called Last Time Buyer - twice as many as...

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...

The chairman of franchise giant Hunters says his company’s purchasing power is such that it secures 60 per cent discounts from...

Savills, which in the past has been restrained in its critique of Brexit’s effect on the housing market, now says that...

It’s a testing time for the property industry, amid Brexit fears, a slowing market and the looming tenant fees ban.  There’s no...

Mortgage brokers are claiming that “a big number” of buyers are being cajoled into using estate agents’ in-house brokers. The Financial Conduct...

Knight Frank says the number of exchanges in Prime Central London in the year to the end of February slumped 14...

An insurance company claims that over 29,000 property deals fall through in a year because buyers get cold feet over their...

An anonymous estate agent has renewed his attack on Purplebricks after an article in The Times at the weekend. Estate Agent Today...

The government has revealed that it’s to ‘test’ the workings of the New Homes Ombudsman before the scheme formally launches. Housing Secretary...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

Foxtons has revealed that its six branch closures announced towards the end of last year will save the company £3m in...

The new portal OneDome is offering what it calls a “consumer-facing digital mortgage product” in a bid to cut fall-throughs. OneDome already...

UK estate agents charge the lowest commission in the European Union according to new research from a comparison website. Despite high levels...

Virtual tours are a compelling way of enhancing a property’s potential through online marketing, increased transparency and efficiency for agents, and...

Whether it is legacy providers with new, young businesses, or large banks with PropTech startups, all types of cross-collaboration are vital. It’s...

One in eight people buying or selling in the next six months say they will delay their plans because of Brexit...

Zoopla’s Hometrack index of 20 major UK cities shows that London property prices are starting to stabilise after a three year...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the number of house hunters registered per branch fell 15 per cent in February...

A large-scale survey by a consumer group has revealed that over half of home owners regard stamp duty as a growing...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

There’s good news from the market - property transactions increased by 1.7 per cent between the start of this year and February,...

Average house prices in the UK increased by 1.7 per cent in the year to the end of January according to...

A survey of owners has revealed that recent leasehold scandals have deterred many would-be buyers from considering new build homes.  The survey,...

Thinking about the state of communication across residential property chains is enough to induce a severe migraine. We work in a world...

Zoopla says the number of its leads delivered to member agents in the period March 2018 to February 2019 was 36...

To get the absolute most from your estate or letting agency business, it’s vital that you partner with the right software...

An industry provider of reservation agreements says its services can “entirely eliminate” fall throughs and reduce failed transactions “to almost zero.” PropTech...

Over 50 per cent of all mortgage products available to home buyers in the UK currently have a standard maximum term...

The leasehold system has created many unsellable and unmortgageable homes and should change, MPs say. The all-party Housing, Communities and Local Government...

Another new online auction company has launched and is bidding to woo traditional estate agents with the controversial ‘modern method of...

Nested, an innovative online agency that offers vendors a form of guaranteed sale, has laid off 20 per cent of its workforce...

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

For many years, the majority of agents have stuck to the tried-and-tested 9am-6pm opening hours framework. But is this now changing,...

A survey by the Centre for Ageing Better recently showed that 72% of people want to see every new home built...

There’s more fuel added to the current debate about reform of the house purchasing process, as new data reveals one buyer...

Two 'challenger portals' have revealed major new services this morning as they fight to take on Rightmove and Zoopla. OneDome, the new...

Estate agents have responded cynically to the small-fry property sector announcements made by Chancellor Phillip Hammond in yesterday’s spring statement mini-Budget. Overshadowed...

Half of first time buyers say they made expensive mistakes during their process of purchasing their home, with mortgage brokers, removal...

Figures released this morning show a surge in first time buyers securing mortgages in recent months, despite the market showing continued signs...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

Maverick Cornish estate agent Chris Wood has quit the industry with a stinging attack on those who have “taken their toll”...

The proliferation of big data is paving the way to improving our economy on almost every front as entrepreneurial digital companies...

The head of residential property at a law firm is warning that referral fees can backfire on estate agents who may...

Rightmove is undertaking an investigation into a PropTech app that has tried to list private sales on the portal. The perhaps-ironically named...

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

Who are you? Mikus Opelts, CEO of Giraffe360 What is Giraffe360 and what does it do? Giraffe360 is a unique digital photography subscription service...

The director of strategy at the Council for Licensed Conveyancers says “the onus is very much on estate agents” to respond...

HM Revenue & Customs has issued more details of its bid to encourage estate agents to combat money laundering in the...

Outsourced auction provider IAMSold says it is the top independent auctioneer for residential property lots sold in 2018, according to the...

Instagram (or, as the younger generation would have it, Insta) is, by any measure, massive.  Only launched in October 2010, it’s a...

The demand for rural properties is high, and with 20.7% of England’s population in countryside areas, estate agents have a large...

The National Association of Estate Agents has led the support for stricter new guidelines on transparency for referral fees. The clampdown means agents...

More downbeat house price figures have prompted one leading estate agent to admit that the 2019 market had not taken off...

A new sales portal has launched with a radically different business model, aiming to pay agents to list on it. It’s the brainchild of...

Chancellors says it has over 10,000 reviews on Trustpilot, making it the most reviewed High Street agency on the platform.  In a statement...

Data from NAEA Propertymark suggests there were 20 per cent fewer buyers in January this year than in the same month...

A member of a prominent legal network is warning buyers and their conveyancers to be ”wary” of the Modern Method of...

Both major portals have this morning revealed more evidence of a gently slowing housing market. The average time to sell a property...

The row over whether Help To Buy benefits house builders’ personal wealth more than it assists the housing market is continuing...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

Another For Sale By Owner website has been launched - this one, apparently, because the founder was “frustrated” with estate agents’...

It’s been a theatrical week in Westminster with talk of defections and duplicity worthy of Shakespeare. Yet the estate agency world has...

Cast your minds back to the summer of 2014. It’s 9.55 am somewhere in east London ‘Sorry I’m late’ offers the...

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

The first set of figures for the year from HMRC show that there were 0.8 per cent more residential property transactions...

A portal powered by Artificial Intelligence claims it is offering investors a much-needed and superior alternative to Rightmove and Zoopla. One &...

In these tougher times, we recognise that helping agents win new inventory is the key to their businesses.  There were more than...

After several days of gloomy market news, here's something more optimistic - there were 370,000 new first time buyer mortgages completed in...

The number of movers has declined by around 50 per cent since the halcyon days of 2006, before the global financial...

If anyone thought Brexit may allow domestic buyers a bigger share of the market, think again: no fewer than 57 per...

The radically-restructured Humberts estate agency claims the risks it took last year in scrapping branches and moving to ‘hubs’ has paid...

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

Property consultancy JLL has launched a specialised Help to Buy team in response to what it calls “the increasing demand for...

With the home buying and selling process firmly on the news agenda of late – everything from a possible ban on...

The average prices of flats and maisonettes bucked the trend by falling very slightly in the year to December, according to...

One of the country’s leading property auctioneers is back to the job he loves today after an absence of 12 months...

We all know the three essential things an estate agent must have on their website include the ability to be able...

A new free-to-list property portal is launching in the UK, and has a pledge to serve over 20 counties by the...

The government has launched an official consultation about a new stamp duty surcharge - the long-awaited additional one per cent for...

Mortgage lenders are relaxing age limits so that house buyers can still be paying off their home loan well into their...

Hello and welcome to this week’s PJT, your regular catch-up on key appointments news in our industry. It’s been a difficult seven...

A London estate agent says his system of ‘moral agreements’ between sellers and buyers prevents chains collapsing and means his company has...

He may not yet have had time to produce a Brexit plan but Boris Johnson has at least had a few...

A review website has launched that describes itself as “a new and powerful research and marketing tool in the residential property...

Winkworth has set up a dedicated land and new homes division. The franchise agency, which has most of its offices in and...

Customer experience (CX) will largely determine the future of estate agency in the UK. This is now a key battleground for...

As an estate agent, you need to be ready to cater for the specific requirements of buyers and sellers, tailoring your...

At the end of January the Asian PropTech company PropertyGuru announced the imminent launch of beta-phase testing of its cutting-edge new product, PropertyGuru Lens. This...

The former chief executive of Emoov says he has the answer to Foxtons’ current downbeat performance - it should exploit its...

An annual study of transaction charges shows that house moving costs are now at a record average high of almost £10,000...

Average prices of flats and houses in prime central London are now the same as they were six years ago; meanwhile...

If former Chancellor George Osborne thought his 2014 stamp duty reform would produce more income for the government, it appears he...

Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...

Purchasing a property. It’s a key life goal that so many Millennials aspire to - yet one that has become frustratingly...

House prices grew at the slowest annual rate for nearly six years in January, according to Nationwide, which says the market...

There’s no end to the PropTech and photography solutions available to estate agents these days to help them sell good, old-fashioned...

With far-reaching reforms of conveyancing and other aspects of house buying high on the government’s agenda, a trade body has revealed...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency team has issued new guidance for those seeking redress over leasehold disputes.  This guidance contains a...

Brexit may be continuing to dominate the headlines - try to stifle that yawn - but there is still a housing...

The 100 per cent mortgage for first time buyers, which many people thought had disappeared for good, is now back in...

One in six mortgage holders has been rejected for a mortgage in the past, according to new research from Which? It says...

A review of the housing market at present, particularly when it comes to purchase transactions, might not necessarily feel overly positive.  The...

Mystery surrounds the identity of an estate agency which has been accused of charging a seller five years after the home...

A new report from Zoopla claims very nearly a third of buyers want to know the street - or even the...

It’s been revealed that the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is to deliver new guidelines to agents for referral fees...

A think tank is suggesting that micro-homes could be the answer to London’s shortage of available homes for first time buyers. The...

Former City analyst Anthony Codling - who is now the front-man for a new property portal - has set out why...

I often speak of my wish to see property taken out of the hands of politicians. Indeed, this is likely to...

The civil servant leading work to reform the house buying has revealed key areas of government thinking - with a ban on...

A survey of 6,000 members of the public and 660 estate and letting agents has revealed some striking findings about how...

Kenny Bruce, one of the founders of sector-leading online agency Purplebricks, has sent his good wishes to Russell Quirk, who founded...

One of Britain’s foremost property consultancies has given a relatively upbeat prediction for the UK housing market over the next five...

It’s been an interesting week of contrasts when it comes to online replacing ‘the old school’. Data from that clever consultancy The...

It’s the word on everyone’s lips: after two and a half years of debate, and months before that leading up to...

A leading buying agent says 2019 is likely to see the continuation of last year’s trend where distressed sellers accept discounts...

Some 59 per cent of people have lied while selling a home and 46 per cent have lied when trying to...

The head of a property management company says conveyancers must do more to ensure buyers of leasehold properties fully understand the...

With the speed of property sales continuing to slow and no end to the sluggishness in sight, it’s time to take...

The latest Bank of England mortgage figures suggest that approvals for home buyers are running at more than a fifth below...

Hamptons International - at one time tipped to be sold off or even shut during the recent problems afflicting parent company...

A new portal called YourMoov and describing itself as “the UK’s first decentralised property listing database” is to launch shortly. In an...

Rightmove has revealed which day was its busiest in 2018 in terms of page views. It says February 19 was the date,...

Phil Spencer is on the warpath against “constant tinkering” by government in housing matters - and instead, he wants the problems...

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

Six directors have been banned from office after misleading over 300 people who bought new build homes in the north of...

House price inflation across the UK has slowed to a six-year low of 2.6 per cent thanks to falls in London...

Londoners paid some £30 billion on homes elsewhere in the UK this year - the highest amount since 2007. A report from...

Developers have continued to sell thousands of new-build houses with leaseholds, despite a government pledge to ban the “unscrupulous” practice a...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

Uncertainty will be a key characteristic of the housing market for “the next few years” warns Countrywide - and not just...

House prices are flatlining with the rate of annual growth having fallen continually since August according to LSL Property Services, which...

A new website is offering to contact owners of homes that are not for sale, on behalf of people who would...

More than 75 per cent of first time buyers have benefited from the changes to stamp duty thresholds for introduced a...

It is something of an understatement to say that we are in challenging times. BREXIT is unresolved and we wait with...

A new analysis of the online estate agency business model claims that it ‘could be described as a Ponzi scheme’. The accusation...

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

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

Hard not to mention two major breaking news stories of recent days; one directly affecting the property market and one which...

Over the past year I've had so many conversations with agents telling me how they feel that offering a premium customer...

Has the bell finally tolled for online agencies? Emoov’s collapse and an investor revolt over crowdfunding have left a large question...

Estate agency Strutt & Parker says that despite Brexit and the economic and political uncertainty accompanying it, house prices in the...

One of the country’s most influential bodies says house price rises over 2019 will be limited to around two per cent...

Whatever one thinks about online estate agencies, it’s a cause of genuine sadness when people lose their jobs - close proximity...

Thanks to vast improvements in processing powers, the use of virtual reality (VR) in some sectors is becoming more evident than...

The chief executive of online agency HouseSimple says “sellers need to be prepared and willing to lower their expectations” in the current...

Young people whose parents have property wealth are now almost three times as likely to be homeowners by the age of...

A tweet from Purplebricks’ chief executive Michael Bruce suggests that the agency may be about to play a role in the Emoov...

A statement by the administrators appointed by Emoov says there are prospective buyers for the listings on the online agency and...

The chief executive of Emoov and the founder of the new portal Rummage4Property had a dramatic spat on Twitter just hours...

An end-of-year analysis from the National Association of Estate Agents shows the state of the industry - and it confirms just...

House prices showed an unexpected pre-Christmas boost last last month but worries about Brexit remain foremost for buyers according to the...

Figures released by the government over the weekend show that 14,867 Help To Buy equity loans were taken out in the...

A high-end estate agency selling some of the country’s most expensive homes says the possible currency falls resulting from Brexit chaos...

One of the country’s top buying agents says he expects 2019 to be a much better year than 2018 as Brexit...

Yet another estate agency has announced that it’s shutting branches and opening a centralised hub. This time it’s Newman Property Experts, a...

The global chief executive of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, has warned mortgage lenders against offering so-called ‘super-sized’ home loans to borrowers.  Bruce is...

Data from the National Association of Estate Agents suggests that the number of registered buyers per member branch has slumped to...

Mainstream bank lending for house purchases grew by 3.6 per cent in October compared to the same month last year. However the...

The debate about online auction charges levied on buyers continues this morning with the release of figures showing that one company...