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Auction House London raised more than £15m in its latest auction, where it saw the biggest catalogue in its history go...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

An estate agency trading under two different names has been expelled by The Property Ombudsman after refusing to refund a £2,000...

Estate agents say the continuing gentle slowdown reflected in the latest government house price figures will be the story of the...

HM Land Registry says the full roll-out of its Local Land Charges digital register could take up to seven years, with...

Those of you who receive (and read) my Sunday PropTech Review will know that, by far and away, the most shared...

A buying agency says it has secured a prime London property for one of its clients at almost 40 per cent...

The old cliche about statistics may be cruel but the government has perhaps left itself open to its use after announcing...

With the news that Hunters and Fisher German are the latest agencies to offer online auctions to sellers, is this something...

A London estate agent who works closely with High Net Worth overseas buyers has hit out a proposed law which he...

Rightmove is reporting a mini-boom as the autumn market gets into gear, with a surge in buyers and a one-month rise...

An estate agency is pioneering a new business model in which it charges no commission whatsoever to the vendor. Freeagent247, an online...

Hunters and Fisher German are the latest agencies to offer online auctions to vendors. An announcement from PropTech property auction company Bamboo...

Owning a home has become almost impossible for many public sector workers across Britain, according to research from the union UNISON. Getting...

The raison d'être for estate agents everywhere is to get their properties noticed! It’s as simple as that. These days you’re likely...

A website claim by the London estate agency Moveli has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority after a complaint from...

The Property Ombudsman has urged the government to bring the new homes build sector under consumer redress. New builds are not currently...

Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...

A 'new breed' estate agency with no shop front, which uses bloggers to market its properties, has announced the opening of...

Speculation is growing that the Help to Buy scheme is set to be discontinued following a review by government ministers. Recent research...

In a surprise weekend announcement the government has almost doubled funding for the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team - the...

Property sellers have been on the back foot over the slow summer period, according to the latest report from NAEA Propertymark....

Over a fifth of pensioners say they would be encouraged to downsize if there was a stamp duty incentive - particularly...

A full 100 per cent of 20 to 24 year olds hope to buy their own home one day -  but...

In our previous 2 blogs we have covered the definitions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) and what the practical...

A downbeat report from property investment specialist London Central Portfolio says “there are very few causes for optimism in the domestic...

Some 31 per cent of first time buyers residing in London ended up moving away from the capital to purchase a...

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

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

After gaining my MBA qualification from Edinburgh Business School in 2005, I took careful consideration over my career moves and prospective...

A new survey suggests that face-to-face contact is still valued by buyers and sellers. Research by Winkworth, questioning over 1,000 people who...

Data from the buying agency Black Brick reveals just how big an impact has been made by the additional homes stamp...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

The latest quarterly house price report published by property portal s1homes reveals that properties across Scotland sell on average at six...

Rightmove says the housing market is now into a ‘summer sale’ as newly-marketed property shows an average asking price fall of...

More than 420,000 people have now used the government’s Help to Buy schemes to get themselves on to the housing ladder...

Home ownership among the young has fallen across all income groups according to a large scale research project looking at adults...

There’s been another call for the government to reform stamp duty - and this time the request is that the duty...

Rumours abound over the future of Countrywide, which lost further share value on Friday, closing very slightly down on the day...

Boris Johnson is calling for a cut to Britain’s “absurdly high” stamp duty. Writing in this morning’s Daily Telegraph - the same newspaper...

Welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - and as ever we have a breakdown of key moves within our industry. To...

When Oakland A’s, a small-market team, stunned the baseball world 16 years ago by transforming itself into world-beaters on a shoestring-budget,...

Research by Estate Agent Today reveals that there have been 12 different stamp duty regimes in the UK since the Millennium. What’s...

LonRes says transactions in prime locations in London dropped another six per cent when the second quarter of 2018 is compared...

A respected mortgage broker has found that there is widespread public uncertainty amongst the public about the effects of stamp duty...

New property listings in July were down 6.0 per cent across the UK and down no less than 12.7 per cent...

Winkworth is beefing up its services for franchise owners with expanded support teams for its IT, Client Services and China departments.  Winkworth’s...

The EY ITEM Club, regarded as one of the most influential groups of economists in the UK, says it’s still “dubious”...

The number of properties withdrawn from the market in the second quarter of this year was greater than the number of...

The London market continues to produce unexpected results with two high end agencies reporting contrasting fortunes.  Half year figures released by Chestertons...

We may be well into August but there’s little sign of a holiday for our industry, with a string of big...

The former Chancellor George Osborne - architect of drastic stamp duty reform - has come out fighting to defend the tax...

Making my way to our London office on a busy commuter train, my mind got busy thinking about the new do-it-yourself...

With all the recent change and upheaval in the rental sector it may be time to consider how letting agencies will...

An analysis of HMRC stamp duty statistics for the second quarter of this year suggest that receipts are down 13.8 per...

The Financial Times this morning says that Countrywide suffered a failed bond issue earlier this year, forcing it to rely on...

A government announcement this morning claims 121,500 first time buyers have taken advantage of the stamp duty cut introduced at the...

A leading buying agency is warning about asking prices that are higher than those acceptable to mortgage companies who therefore down-value...

The latest market snapshot released by the National Association of Estate Agents’ shows the challenges faced by the industry right now. The...

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...

Does your company apply adequate customer due diligence measures when carrying out estate agency work?  Does it establish and maintain appropriate policies...

With the continued indecision surrounding Brexit and the final divorce settlement still months away, it seems property buyers are choosing to...

The couple at the centre of a court case about agents’ fees say the issue could have been resolved earlier had...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

One of the country’s largest regional agencies is moving into the sale of homes overseas despite Brexit uncertainty and concern over...

Another day, another housing minister – at least that’s what it feels like! The resignation of the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson...

If you’re an estate agent and have a property that is difficult to sell or the homeowner simply needs a fast...

The creators of a website using market data to define postcodes as hosting a seller’s market or a buyer’s market have...

HM Land Registry calculates that 125,000 buyers will benefit from just the first phase of its digitisation programme for Local Land...

Agents appear to be getting more pessimistic over the housing market as the latest government figures show prices still growing - but...

House prices in London are projected to fall in the short-term, down by two per cent by the end of 2018...

The consumer group Which? says some estate agents are misleading buyers about in-house mortgage services.  The consumer group has issued a number...

Asking prices are at a virtual standstill as the summer lull kicks in, according to the latest Rightmove index. New seller asking...

Amid the headline-grabbing political manoeuvring over Brexit, a policy proposal which could have serious ramifications for private landlords, and those who...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

One of the UK’s leading group of economic experts has repeated its warning that housing market is not going to see...

An estate agency chain has produced strikingly successful sales figures for the first half of the year - evidence, it says,...

An outspoken high-end London estate agent says millionaire foreign buyers purchasing “cheap” properties in the capital represent what he calls “the...

Two more price reports from high-end agencies make grim reading about the prime London housing market. New data from Savills suggests that...

The government says its funding schemes such as Help To Buy will no longer be applied to what it calls “unjustified...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

So here’s the thing. It’s summer - not much going on, school holidays about to start, industry publications filling out space...

Wary buyers reluctant to risk buying a premium-priced property in the volatile prime central London market are adopting a perhaps-surprising tactic...

Total mortgage approvals by the main High Street banks increased three per cent in May over the same month last year...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

To say this is a turbulent time for UK politics would be something of an understatement. As I write, the Brexit...

In recent weeks, you could have been forgiven for thinking that you’re not actually in the UK.  Flash floods aside, the...

The Money editor of The Mirror newspaper has finally sold a home he first put on the market in late 2016...

A major hybrid agency says there is a huge ‘reality gap’ between the typical asking price of homes on sale and the...

Prime London’s transactions are now the preserve of so-called ‘needs-based buyers’ and not investors according to high-end agency Knight Frank -...

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

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

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...