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The housing market “is clearly currently struggling to gain traction” and any real upturn ”will remain elusive over the coming months”...

Potential first-time buyers in every area of the UK would have lower monthly outgoings if they bought a property rather than...

Savills has suggested that it may be time for a fundamental review of what’s left of the flagship policy of Margaret...

Summer is traditionally the time of the year when the property market slows down, with people going away on their holidays...

So what did you think of the match? A deserved 2-1 win or a lucky victory snatched from the jaws of...

There’s been a landslide vote to ban new-build second homes in another tourist hotspot. Some 90 per cent of those who voted...

The average asking price of newly marketed property continues to rise according to Rightmove - and this is despite a dip...

One of the country’s best known regional traditional agencies, Pygott and Crone, has used a promotion in local news outlets to...

An auction house says it was “scoffed at” four years ago when it began offering online options to customers - but...

Prices grew at a faster than expected rate last month according to the Halifax House Price Index, which has reported a...

London estate agency Kay & Co says it is targeting Chinese buyers following research data produced by a portal. The China property...

A poll of housing market experts suggests London house prices are likely to fall this year as a result of Brexit...

A property portal that describes itself as free-to-list has launched today, taking the industry by surprise - however, at least one...

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

As the process of making buying and selling more transparent continues to gather pace, the body that regulates conveyancers says it...

A magazine which earlier this year claimed that two big corporates pressured customers to use their preferred mortgage brokers has now...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

One of the country’s leading experts on the housing market says first time buyers are still hampered from purchasing homes despite...

A new online platform claims agents can now offer people a chance to buy a property with, literally, just one click...

One of London’s best known high-end estate agents, Gary Hersham, says corruption crackdowns in this country and overseas may be deterring...

The housing market has swung back in favour of property sellers, according to the latest data from estate agents. NAEA Propertymark's Housing...

The Bank of Mum and Dad will provide funding towards around a quarter of property purchases this year, according to research. By...

National estate agency Jackson-Stops claims that the 3% stamp duty surcharge on additional homes is still confusing buyers, despite being in...

Breakdowns within property chains are the most common cause of fall throughs, according to a new study. Over the last ten years,...

Sotheby's International Realty has launched what it claims to be the first 'real estate-branded' augmented reality (AR) app. 'Curate', which is now...

In an era when we are never far away from our phones, tablets or laptops, buying and selling property is benefitting...

To demonstrate the lengths some buyers will go to make sure their offer is accepted, NAEA Propertymark has asked its agent...

Average first-time buyers in London spend double the amount paid by those across the rest of Britain. A typical London buyer now...

An estate agent claims that online property listings which include video tours receive 'hundreds more views' than those without. Dan Killeen of...

Research by Zoopla suggests that homeowners' confidence in the property market is on the rise.  The property website's latest Housing Market Sentiment...

Property sellers in Scotland are profiting from buyers' willingness to pay above asking price for a home.  This is according to portal...

The latest data from Rightmove indicates that the average national asking price has reached another all-time high of £308,075 following a...

High-end London chain Marsh & Parsons, part of the LSL Property Services empire, has opened in 30th office in Chiswick.  “Chiswick’s wonderful...

A new report suggests Capital Gains Tax changes coming into effect next year are worrying a large majority of wealthy overseas...

The Court of Appeal has overturned controversial fraud decisions which have a bearing on agents’ and conveyancers’ responsibilities for checking buyers’...

The chief executive of Winkworth says the upcoming Brexit is creating uncertainty and causing buyers and investors to delay purchasing plans. Dominic Agace,...

One in five sellers suffer a fall-through costing them an average £2,700 - but many lose £5,000 or more. These are the...

New data from Haart estate agency suggests that despite many homes sticking on the market, apparently would be buyers are locked...

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has decided to keep the base rate unchanged at 0.5 per cent this month. The...

Estate Agent Today understands several major national agencies and some smaller operators are involved in a project to understand why transaction...

The Financial Conduct Authority says house buyers need more help to find the best priced and most appropriate mortgage deal for their...

New data from a private bank shows a five per cent rise in the number of £1m-plus homes sold in 2017.  The...

Here’s some good news to take into the Bank Holiday weekend.  Research undertaken by Estate Agent Today suggests that fees charged by...

Several agencies operating under different brand names in south east England have been retitled under just one, called Alexander & Co.  This...

A major regional agent is calling on others to join it in an initiative to create a more friendly and welcoming...

New online auction house BidX1 says it has raised £2,087,000 from its second UK auction, posting a 70 per cent success...

I have sold hundreds of lettings businesses over the last twenty-five years. Based on this experience, these are the mistakes that you...

The managing director of troubled estate agency Humberts says he has been “inundated” with prospective buyers since news broke over last...

The massive wealth of owners over 55 has been revealed by a new survey. They own £938 billion of UK housing, a figure...

James Brokenshire - yesterday appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government - joins the rank of senior politicians...

Only one property in every eight sold in the current market succeeds in achieving its asking price - while no fewer than...

Research from the Nationwide suggests that the share of cash transactions has declined over the past 18 months, at least partly...

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

Figures from the Treasury suggest that the annual revenue from stamp duty for the year to the end of March is...

Fewer mortgages were approved for home buyers last month than in the same month a year ago according to figures from...

Coutts bank has issued a starkly pessimistic snapshot of prime London’s housing landscape, reporting price falls, valuation mark-downs and slower sales...

Leading housing analyst Kate Faulkner says the current low transaction level is “a little scary” because with so few sellers, buyers...

A new study reveals precisely how little first time buyers apparently understand about the buying process.  In a survey of 500 people...

An umbrella body representing search organisations says searches “are very rarely the cause of delays” in transactions. The Council of Property Search...

The average number of viewings received by properties before a sale is agreed has risen from 11 in 2015 to 19...

The Henley Business School is often identified with cutting edge forecasts - but now it has revealed the history of what...

Estate agent licensing will reduce competition, make buying and selling homes more expensive, and add another layer of red tape to...

Property purchases for buyers requiring mortgages reached 50,000 in February, the highest level for the month since 2007.  The data, from mortgage...

As the estate agency business in England moves towards being more robust with professional qualifications and higher standards being introduced, there...

A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...

Purplebricks has returned to the fray after recent controversies with a claim that home owners saved themselves over £140m in commission...

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...

The announcement that MPs will set up a Select Committee to probe the scale of money laundering in the UK property...

The latest mortgage snapshot from e.surv has reinforced recent claims from other sources that London’s housing market remains the most difficult...

The Conveyancing Association has backed the government’s calls for extensive reform of the buying and selling process, announced at the weekend. The...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Awais Ahmad - Founder and CEO of Hystreet (I don’t...

To say I had a lot of reaction to last week's column about selling my flat would be an understatement. I've never...

The proportion of first time buyers in the market is still 11 per cent below the level seen before the 2008...

The number of house sales falling through pre-completion during the first quarter of 2018 reached its highest level for this time...

The conveyancing industry regulator has thrown its weight behind the government’s proposals to improve the buying and selling process.  Stephen Ward, director of strategy...

  More details have emerged of the government’s proposals to enhance estate agency regulation, regulate referral fees, offer guides for buyers and...

The government has announced further measures which will, in its words, “professionalise” house buying and the estate agency business. In yet another Sunday...

Floor plans are an essential marketing tool, which play an important part in helping an estate agent sell a home.  A floor...

In the modern marketplace – where people live their lives on their smartphones and tablets, social media has a bigger influence...

Barclays is next week launching a so-called ‘green mortgage’ which links the loan to the Energy Performance Certificate rating of the...

The online agency HouseSimple is to use a video blogger to stay in a property on sale and promote it via...

You don’t have to look far to see an abundance of photo failures, just head to any property portal and they’ll pop...

Hybrid agency EweMove says it has seen four portfolio acquisitions and 29 new areas ‘purchased’ by franchisees since June 2017, taking...

Countrywide is not quite finished with online experimentation yet, for today sees the launch of an online mortgage service, backed by...

As always seems to be the case with Purplebricks, the hybrid agency has had a good week...and a bad one. Undeniably impressive...

As the Easter sales weekend kicks off, the head of a prominent buying agency says estate agents confuse the true valuation...

Gross mortgage lending is set to reach its highest level since 2007 despite Brexit, says the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. But its...

Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...

Purplebricks has given details of how it intends to use some of its new investment, and in particular is spelling out...

House price growth in London has hit a seven year low according to Hometrack, with prices actually down across 42 per...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the government’s first time buyer stamp duty incentive “seems to be having the desired...

One day, I’ll sit down to write for Estate Agent Today and I won’t express my dismay at the lack of...

A buying agent says a higher proportion of Britain’s rarified country estates market is now being sold off-market. Jess Simpson, an ex-Savills...

A magazine claims its investigations into the sales tactics of Countrywide and Connells suggest the two agency are “harming consumers, stopping them from...

Figures just released assessing February’s mortgage borrowing show that approvals are 1.25 per cent lower than in January, and are down...

Average asking price of newly-marketed property have jumped 1.5 per cent - or over £4,500 - in the past month, says...

Estate agency Jackson-Stops says it has discovered precisely how many existing home owners understand the difficulties facing first time buyers in...

TV property expert Phil Spencer is launching an online advice service for buyers and tenants, including offering guidance on the specific...

Rightmove’s latest assessment of the housing market suggests that Newport in Gwent is the fastest moving area in Britain for vendors. A...

The switchback of house price indices and other data on the state of the market has taken a turn for the...

  Chancellor Phillip Hammond claims over 60,000 first time buyers have already benefitted from the stamp duty relief he announced at his...

Average house prices rose 0.5 per cent in February, making it the biggest rise in five months according to the latest...

Ombudsman Services, which recently announced it was quitting its role as one of three approved redress schemes for estate and lettings...

The Ernst & Young ITEM Club - a group of economists highly regarded by politicians and some sectors of the property...

The magazine Mortgage Strategy says Countrywide is investigating reports that one of its estate agent branches pressured buyers to use in-house...

Getting your property marketing right is vital, and the starting point is with professional images.  With most buyers browsing the internet for...

Crimestoppers is working with estate agencies and financial advisers as well as conveyancers in a bid to eliminate house buyers’ deposits...

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...

HM Land Registry has taken another step towards its aim to “make conveyancing simpler, faster and cheaper” for the general public. The...

Welcome once again to Property Jobs Today, the notice-board for agents, suppliers and other property professionals moving within, out or in...

A survey by Lloyds Bank has revealed that the average ‘first time seller’ requires very nearly £136,000 to bridge the gap...

The operation of ‘online estate agencies’ has changed substantially in the relatively short few years of their existence: I have spotted...

When it comes to property, ‘Japanese knotweed’ are the two words most homeowners and prospective buyers do not want to hear.  With...

The National Association of Estate Agents says a new tool just launched will make it easier for agent members to comply...

Foxtons has reported its 2017 figures to shareholders and the City this morning and as expected they show sharp falls in...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the year has started with a boom as demand from prospective house-hunters increased by...

A new report by the residential property team of a legal firm has found widespread criticism of online agents’ over their...

A 1.0 per cent interest rate rise would add £930 a year to the cost of servicing the average mortgage, according...

Brexit uncertainty and weakening consumer demand are likely to hit house prices this year, according to a survey of 33 housing...

In the great swathe of housing market data which is delivered each month, conveyancers’ case volumes often get overlooked, however the...

The UK property sector has been a hotbed for financial crime in recent years, with many criminals seeing it as an...

Estate Agent Today can reveal that one of London’s best known agency chains has acquired one of the capital’s leading independent...

Agents have welcomed more data suggesting the 2018 market is enjoying a robust start. Last week Rightmove reported a record number of...

Home movers are opting to use specialist conveyancers over local solicitors, according to new research. Conveyancing software firm InfoTrack says 43% of...

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

Coming into force on May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 -...

Online auction house BidX1 has launched its first UK online auction following its acquisition of London-based auctioneer Andrews & Robertson. This is...

Scotland is considering giving first time buyers relief or exemption from Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - the replacement for stamp...

The other day I met with two agents who have 30 years of property sales experience between them, and yet also...

“Are we there yet?” In the same way that these words can drive you to distraction (any parent who has endured the...

The number of first-time buyers has increased 16 per cent in the past month and 10 per cent year on year...

Despite a string of property pundits suggesting the market is slowing down, new figures from the Office for National Statistics show...

Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I had any, I’d sell fast… In its latest adverts, Purplebricks attempts to...

There has been a 40 per cent increase in new vendors registering their properties for sale according to an online estate...

Between October and December 2017, some £822 million worth of UK residential property was sold at auction, according to the Essential...

I had an interesting meeting last week with a VR company called Garou. Based in New York, they claim to have...

A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...

Former estate agent Nick Ferrand has gone public with a new website which says home owners decide when and to whom...

This year is going to be “challenging” for the housing market according to the influential Ernst & Young ITEM Club, a...

Outspoken buying agent Henry Pryor has set out 10 points that he claims many traditional agents overlook when they debate the...

Q. How did you get in to the property industry? My career in the property industry actually started out as a holiday...

A new ‘quick buy’ property company claims it will make an offer on any home within 24 hours of the vendor...

Demand for homes fell by 20 per cent year-on-year in December. There were 268 prospective home-owners registered per NAEA member branch, down...

The Mortgage Advice Bureau says early evidence suggests typical first time buyers are now spending more following the effective scrapping of stamp...

A partner at Carter Jonas says that the next 12 months could see stagnation in the market and as a result...

Here’s how the LetsBid Property team is helping them do it. A new property platform called LetsBid has launched in the...

What do you need to know if you are considering selling your sales or lettings business?  Here’s ten top tips to think...

Rightmove’s former lettings chief Sam Mitchell has taken over as chief executive of online agency HouseSimple, which recently won another £20m...

The number of transactions last year dropped to 1.22m - a minor 0.8 per cent drop on the year before and...

London’s prime central market is turning around at last according to the chief executive of Belgravia estate agency Henry & James. James...

One of the most influential select committees in parliament has told the government that it needs to do more - much...

A set of figures produced by Haart suggests the market has had a difficult past 12 months - but the firm...

Andrews & Robertson, one of the UK’s highest profile auction houses, has been taken over by Ireland’s BidX1 and is set...

Japanese knotweed, the invasive plant brought over to Britain in the Victorian era, threatens millions of pounds worth of property transactions...

New research from the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents reveals that no fewer than...

An overwhelming 86 per cent of RICS members questioned in a survey claim they have seen no increase in interest from...

A poll of over 2,500 first time buyers suggests that on average they pay £5,300 less than the asking price -...

Hunters is partnering with a PropTech firm to allow homes on the market and still awaiting buyers to be short-let for...

Fall-through rates have long been a problem for the UK residential property market, the issue is nothing new. Today, however, the...

Virtual Staging is about presenting a property in the most appealing way to potential buyers. Many consider virtual staging is deceiving...

Rightmove says its visits so far in January are running over nine per cent higher than the same period a year...

While there is a distinct market for flats held on particularly short leases, there is a middle ground where flat owners...

Two UK online estate agencies have been named in a list of the world’s top 50 real estate start-ups to watch...

Estate agents are making buyers and sellers feel pressured into paying for additional services so as not to miss out on...

Buyers spent £9.7 billion on moving house in 2017 with the average individual move costing £9,580 according to comparison website Compare...

The Department of Communities and Local Government has been rebadged as the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government in what...

A senior figure in another regional estate agency group has expressed scepticism about the popularity of online choices for vendors. Last week...

New analysis by the Nationwide has revealed just how big an obstacle a 20 per cent deposit can be for buyers...

Mystery surrounds a claim made by Prime Minister Theresa May that the stamp duty changes for first time buyers made in...

A website called Roofoveryourhead has launched which threatens to bypass estate agents and allow vendors to sell for free. The site uses language similar...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers says it is worried that HM Land Registry’s decision to publish details of apparent errors in...

Well, I don’t know about you but after the holidays I've got an imprint just below my navel where my belt...

More price falls have been recorded across areas of prime London according to Savills.  The pattern is not uniform - the agency...

An online intermediary platform called OpenMoov has been set up which instructs agents on behalf of sellers and tenants - and...

A House of Commons committee has prepared a briefing document on areas of the UK residential and commercial properties sectors most impacted...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

The Nationwide says the Chancellor’s decision to effectively scrap stamp duty for the majority of first time buyers will have only...

Outspoken buying agent Henry Pryor says some “pretty dodgy” overseas buyers have purchased homes in the UK in the past -...

The last of the leading agency analysts and business consultancies have now given their predictions for the UK housing market in...

The property consultancy Hometrack says London is facing “a drawn-out period during which there will be a slow re-alignment of house...

The operators of a new website which earlier today claimed to have 500,000 property listings appear to have now removed the...

No fewer than 85 per cent of properties sold for less than the asking price in November, the highest seen since...

A specialist leasehold enfranchisement firm has branded government leasehold reforms as "incredibly weak". In an announcement lost in the noise following Damian Green’s sacking,...

A major industry supplier has reminded estate and letting agents that they have to check their responsibilities and systems ahead of...

easyProperty is to sponsor some of the most iconic property programmes on TV from January 1. It will sponsor Sun, Sea, and...

One of prime London’s most senior estate agents says stamp duty is “strangling the residential property market” in areas of the...

Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...

Another new year is nearly upon us and, once we’ve got the season of mince pies, mulled wine, pigs in blankets,...

The short let management company Lavanda - backed by Harry Hill, former chief of Rightmove and Countrywide - has launched software...

The investment service arm of international ratings agency Moody's is warning that affordability issues are likely to lead to a slowdown...

Rightmove is warning that the asking price of property coming to market has fallen by 2.6 per cent in the past...

It’s been a trend developing in the past few months - estate agents increasingly flirting with the idea of selling homes...

Property has always been an industry built on a foundation of personal relationships. Deals made, promotions gained, clients won, portfolios grown;...

John Taylor, a high-end international estate agency which until earlier this year had a presence in London, says it intends to...

A survey of the housing market in 2017 from the National Association of Estate Agents suggests much of the busiest activity...

It’s not breaking new ground to say that younger people have what many regard as the raw end of the deal...

Here we are again: another much anticipated Budget has been and gone and, yet, still nothing much has changed! Yes, of course,...

Foxtons says it takes just eight minutes for a purchaser to know whether they will go ahead with buying a home.  The...

The consumer group HomeOnwers’ Alliance says buyers of new build homes should be able to retain 2.5 per cent of the...

The first residential transaction has taken place under the so-called Conveyancer’s Code for Completion - a new procedure in which the...

The latest market snapshot from the National Association of Estate Agents suggests that the proportion of sales made to first time...

Online agency Settled is introducing a deposit scheme which it claims will assist sellers and buyers reach completion faster - and...

The London-focussed estate agency Cluttons says chains in central London are becoming increasingly fragile thanks to general uncertainty in the wider...

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

Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt says she welcomes the government’s scrapping of stamp duty for first time buyers purchasing homes under...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget with a strong focus on housing.  The decision to cut stamp duty...

The small print of the Budget has revealed that the government is to make minor changes to the ‘additional homes’ three...

The government has defined the ‘first time buyers’ who will benefit from its immediate scrapping of stamp duty for FTB purchases...

Agents and even the Labour Party have backed the government’s scrapping of stamp duty for first time buyers’ purchases up to...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

An online agency which claims to be the first in the world to be dedicated to sealed bid property sales, is...

A new software tool claims to be able to verify leads by checking on buyers via social media.  Using Facebook, LinkedIn and...

A housing market expert says agents should be more pro-active and explain to the public that contrary to popular belief, some...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

British politics is extraordinarily volatile right now and the ongoing battle between austerity and anti-austerity, Leave and Remain, and Conservative and...

A large part of the DCLG’s Call for Evidence on the home buying and selling process focuses on the role of...

The London residential market is at last improving - but faces a make or break situation with next week’s Budget according...

easyProperty, the online agency, says stamp duty should be paid by sellers and not by first time buyers. The online firm’s head...

Former National Association of Estate Agents president Simon Gerrard is renewing his campaign for the government to adopt two innovative reforms...

Sellers have launched "their own sale" in response to the stagnating market by slashing asking prices according to Rightmove - but...

In the UK, there are over 3.9 million homes situated in off-grid areas with no access to mains gas, so it’s...

HMRC has refunded £185m to some 15,000 house buyers since the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge in April of last...

A new website which completely by-passes all kinds of estate agents and allows vendors to upload details of their own properties...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a downbeat snapshot of the current housing market with "subdued sales trends" across...

Mortgage approvals are well above last year's levels despite concerns about the health of the housing market.  There were 66,185 mortgage applications...

The largest mutual life pension and insurance company in the UK has added its voice to growing calls for stamp duty...

The government's call for evidence from agents and others in a bid to improve the house buying process has pushed some...

The head of a major Oxford estate and lettings agency has written an open letter to Chancellor Phillip Hammond urging him...

A new portal has been launched aimed at marketing ex-council properties for sale or to let through agencies.  Ex-Council.com says it is...

Two thirds of first time buyers over-estimate the cost of purchasing a home according to a survey from the NatWest. The NatWest’s...

The spread and sophistication of financial crime in the UK in recent years has been unprecedented.  Figures from UK Finance show that...

Savills has given a pessimistic outlook for the mainstream housing market for the next five years.  It says average house prices across...

The Bank of England has raised the base rate from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent. The Bank’s monetary policy committee was...

An influential consumer group has responded to the government’s commitment to reform the house buying process by advocating legally-binding reservation agreements...

A survey conducted by the National Association of Estate Agents reveals that 79 per cent of agents regard the current home-buying...

As the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee consider whether to increase base rate later this week, new figures from the...

A former estate agent has teamed up with two interiors experts to offer a home staging rental service to dress properties...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

Crowdfunding is nothing new. As I pointed out in a previous Natter, it dates back centuries, playing a part in the...

Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has launched a consultation on proposals to reform the house buying...

The government should take a close look at gazundering as well as gazumping in its review of the house sales process,...

Garrington Property Finders says some two-thirds of homes in two high-value parts of prime central London have been on sale for...

New Zealand’s new Labour prime minister elect has banned non-resident foreigners from buying existing homes anywhere in the country in a...

New figures from UK Finance, the umbrella body for finance houses, show gross mortgage lending in September rose to £21.4 billion...

The residential research associate director of Cushman & Wakefield says there is now evidence that the Help to Buy equity loan...

Innovative London agency Nested has raised an additional £36m in funding - brining the total behind the company to almost £50m. Nested,...

Conveyancers and the speed of local council searches have come in for criticism as details have emerged of the government’s consultation...

A breakdown of data from over 4,100 agents has revealed that it takes on average 201 days to move home, from...

The government has launched a consultation this weekend calling for evidence on how to make the home buying process “cheaper, faster...

With the Budget just over a month away, the steady stream of ‘leaks’ continues to grow as journalists and the industry...

Pressure is continuing to build on the government to reform stamp duty in next month’s Budget. Firstly a group of senior financial...

Some 41 per cent of parents are not in a position to provide any financial support towards helping their child get...

A new online property competition platform has launched that gives entrants the opportunity to win a home for £2 - but...

Employers and government should introduce auto-enrolment of monthly salaries to allow people aged 18 to 40 to save for deposits on...

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

They say presentation is key (something that Theresa May now knows all too well after her calamitous conference speech). But equally...

The latest RICS market survey shows that buyer enquiries and transactions slipped back last month with expectations pointing to “a subdued...

One one in every 300 property purchases by overseas buyers trigger a so-called ‘red flag’ with the National Crime Agency -...

Stamp duty reform lies at the heart of the submission by the National Association of Estate Agents ahead of next month’s...

The housing market may appear sluggish at best in many areas but data from Rightmove suggests it’s now quicker to sell...

What is your experience in the property industry? I worked in estate agency for 12 years before joining Moneypenny and really enjoyed...

Conservative MP John Stevenson is the latest to throw his weight behind switching the burden of stamp duty from the buyer...

Respected buying agency Black Brick says there is evidence that prices in prime central London may be stabilising and transactions volumes...

More than one in four house sales across England and Wales fell through before completion in the third quarter of 2017...

UK estate agency commission levels are amongst the lowest in the world according to a league table compiled by an international...

If the government slashed stamp duty for the country’s most expensive properties the entire housing market would benefit, an estate agency...

Figures in the property industry have sharply criticised the announcement made at the Conservative party conference to pump an estimated £10...

Figures just released by the National Association of Estate Agents suggest that the number of house hunters registered at agencies dropped...

The vast majority of sellers surveyed by a consumer group say rapport with branch staff in a locally-based office is important...

Savills has revised its forecasts for the housing market and says that uncertainty over the impact of Brexit points to two...

Carter Jonas has launched a new website which it says ”reflects and enhances the business’ role in delivering a highly personalised...

Mortgage lending reached £24.2 billion in August according to latest estimates by UK Finance. There were some 41,807 house purchase approvals, with...

A mystery online petition is urging Rightmove to filter its advertisements “in a bid to curb down inflationary / speculative / fake...

The UK’s largest high street property franchise, Belvoir, has launched a new video called #MovingMemories to attract buyers and landlords to...

The agent behind a new online service covering off-market homes in part of prime central London says his service will expand...

A survey of over 1,700 people has revealed that over a quarter who have purchased their home in the last 12 months...

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Leasehold and Commonhold Reform has made a hard-hitting submission to formal government consultations on the...

What does your role involve? As team manager for the property team, I make sure PAs and clients are happy and...

An online platform has been launched with the aim of allowing first time buyers to seek crowdfunding to raise enough cash...

When Kenneth Bruce, co-founder of Purplebricks, published an emotional post on social media this week, my first reaction was; what a...

Simon Gerrard, a past president of the National Association of Estate Agents, has called on the government to switch the burden...

A PropTech start-up says its booking, valuation and communication tools will be available free of charge to any agency with fewer...

Rightmove’s monthly price index says the average asking price of homes coming to the market has fallen 1.2 per cent in...

How has the world of estate agency changed in the last few decades? That’s the question this week’s Natter is going...

It appears activity in the housing market in 2017 will be around 15% down on 2016. The number of housing transactions...

The Property Ombudsman has taken the unusual step of warning all estate and letting agents to act with caution over fraudulent...

Investors from countries as diverse as South Africa and Russia are getting a 21 per cent discount on UK property according...

One of the world’s leading property technology experts, who at one time was head of strategy at a property portal, says investing...

Winkworth says solid performances from its lettings and property management services, plus new franchise deals, have compensated for a challenging sales...

Estate agency James Pendleton says it wants to give its clients more digital advantages without becoming an online operation itself -...