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With so many benefits including lower fall-through rates and quicker sales, it is no surprise that selling a property via auction...

Cash buyers may no longer be king in the property market. The level of demand and lack of supply in the current...

A third of first-time buyers have had to reduce their budgets as a result of recent interest rate hikes and the...

In a new column, solicitor Colum Smith, an expert in combating fraud at Taylor Rose MW Solicitors, explains why those looking...

Scotland and the south west of England have been identified as cash buyer hotspots. Analysis by Barrows and Forrester, found 27 per...

Independent agents come in all shapes, sizes and looks, many with their own USPs and little quirks. It is this variety...

A first-time-buyer couple in a part of the country renowned for its second homes and shortage of stock has praised a...

A prominent London agency says cash buyers are securing substantial discounts in prime areas of the capital. The biggest cash discount currently...

Purplebricks recently launched a meditation service to help buyers and sellers manage stress. You might disagree with the idea, but moving...

A property developer has set up an estate agency that charges no commission to sellers but instead levies a non-refundable reservation...

One of prime central London’s most respected estate agencies is warning that it could take until spring 2021 for the luxury...

A new study suggests cash buyers secure lower sale prices than mortgaged purchasers - but is that really the case? The survey by...

A report from Countrywide says the proportion of homes in Great Britain bought with cash fell to a mere 28 per...

Cash buyers have fallen in 90 per cent of major UK cities over the past three years according to a Zoopla...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

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

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

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

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

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

Savills has issued its forecast for the housing market for the next five years, and while it highlights some bright spots...

Cash used to be king in the housing market but new figures released today show that in the first half of...

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

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

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

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

The buying agency Black Brick says 38 per cent of its transactions the first half of the year were off market...