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Buyer demand has continued to climb during the first quarter (Q1) of the year, research suggests. Analysis by agency comparison website GetAgent...

The Spring Budget missed the mark when it comes to boosting current market conditions, agents have claimed. A survey of 833 UK...

Single first-time buyers need to save for almost 6.5 years or 76 months to raise a 10% deposit and cover moving...

The mortgage price war appears to have eased and the shelf life on home loans has hit a six-month low, Moneyfacts...

Seller search interest for high street agents has dropped, while there has been a significant spike in searches for cheap fee...

Average house prices will fall 3.6% in the first quarter of the year, according to forecasts by reallymoving.com. The research is based...

Branches may be closing but the number of estate agency businesses has increased by 2% across the UK over the past...

Only a tenth of first-time buyers have managed to get on the property ladder without additional support, a survey has revealed. Comparison...

The last thing you want as we rake through the dying embers of 2023 is a journalist’s prediction of what’s going...

Average mortgage rates have fallen for the fourth consecutive month and borrowers can now get a two-year fix below 6%. The latest...

Visits to Rightmove have fallen by 18% in the past year as high mortgage rates hit the national market from the...

The level of new for sale stock reaching the market across Britain has surged by 128% since the start of the...

Average mortgage pricing is falling in a “positive sign” for the market, new analysis suggests. Data from comparison website Moneyfacts shows typical...

Falling Stamp Duty and survey fees have pushed down the cost of moving. Comparison website reallymoving analyses the cost of moving home...

The average home seller across England and Wales has achieved 97.3% of asking price, a -2.4% drop versus the previous six...

Agency fees account for 81% of upfront home selling costs on average, research suggests. Industry comparison website GetAgent has used its My...

The most highly-rated agents in the UK have been revealed. Comparison website allAgents has unveiled the winners of its 2023 People Awards. These...

Homebuyers looking for a 10-year fixed mortgage for their property purchase are facing less choice, research suggests. Analysis by Moneyfactscompare.co.uk  has found...

First-time buyers in the UK are paying almost a third more to get on the property ladder than they were five...

The time it’s taking to sell a home across England and Wales has fallen by an average of 44 days, new...

UK estate agents are split when it comes to their opinion on last week’s Budget, with half concerned about a lack...

Homebuyers looking to secure a mortgage are now facing more choice and lower rates than six months ago. New data from comparison...

The number of properties listed as sold subject to contract (SSTC) has increased by 5% so far this year versus the...

Half of first-time buyers say house prices would need to fall up to 20% for them to consider making a purchase,...

Almost 155,000 home sellers could be impacted by a drop in house prices but it may only last for  a couple...

Estate agents have seen a more muted start to the year for seller and buyer activity but there is concern about...

New research has uncovered the most densely populated areas for estate agency branches. Agency comparison website GetAgent’s internal data tracks the number...

Forget the ‘race for space,’ buyers are now facing a race for mortgage rates. Comparison website Moneyfacts has revealed that the average...

The pandemic-inspired property demand boom is well and truly over, GetAgent claims. It comes as the agent comparison website’s latest Hotspot Demand...

The Bank of England increased interest rates from 3% to 3.5% yesterday, potentially pushing up costs for those looking to purchase property...

England may have beaten Wales in the football but it is a different story when it comes to which country is...

Estate agency comparison website GetAgent has been ranked amongst the UK’s 50 fastest growing technology companies in the 2022 Deloitte UK...

Online and Americanised models of self-employed agency have deterred new agents from entering the sector amid a wider decline of professionals...

Mortgage borrowers who paused home purchasing plans may be getting a respite from rising rates after new data shows average pricing...

Agents have managed to secure a buyer two weeks faster for their vendors so far this year compared with in 2021,...

The choice of mortgage products for borrowers dropped by almost half during September, new figures show. Thousands of mortgages were withdrawn and...

Rightmove insists the housing market is still moving as more lenders removed deals yesterday. Data from comparison website Moneyfacts shows there were...

Autumn and winter have been identified as the best seasons to sell a property if an agent wants to get their...

The 1980s may be most fondly remembered for bad hairdos and questionable fashion, but it may have also been the best...

The number of mortgages available to borrowers has hit the lowest level for more than a year, Moneyfacts has warned. Analysis by...

Sellers are willing to cut their asking price expectations by as much as £150,000 to attract a cash buyer for a...

Estate agents have listed an average of 7.3 homes for sale per branch during 2022, research suggests- down 12.5% annually. Agency comparison...

Industry comparison website allAgents has announced a change of event date for their 2022 Customer Experience Awards Ceremony. It will now be...

Agents are currently achieving 99.4% of the asking price on listings, research shows.  The figure, calculated by agency comparison website GetAgent based...

Stock shortages are seeing one in 10 homes get snapped up within 14 days of entering the market, GetAgent claims. The agent...

Property industry veteran Mal McCallion is among two new high-profile recruits for GetAgent. McCallion, who helped launch Primelocation in 2000 and was...

Agents helped vendors sell homes at 97.9% of asking price on average last year, research claims. Analysis of portal and Land Registry...

Typical stamp duty paid by property purchasers now is actually 84 per cent more than before the pandemic and the SDLT...

The war of words between various property review platforms continues apace. The latest accusation concern comparison website GetAgent, and specifically reviews of...

The time it takes to complete a transaction is beginning to drop according to an analysis by comparison website GetAgent. The average...

A lead generation platform that boasts Leaders, EweMove and Northwood amongst its clients says it’s expanding into mortgages. Rentround, now in its...

There’s been a huge rise in the amount of money contributed to the housing market by first time buyers. They paid over...

A comparison website dealing with estate agency charges says commission varies hugely across 20 major cities of the UK.  GetAgent looked at...

Sir David Amess, murdered at a constituency surgery last month, may have an unexpected housing market legacy for his constituents. To commemorate...

The average cost of buying and selling a home in England this year has soared from £6,877 before the end of...

Estate agents who differentiate themselves from competitors should not be afraid of charging more - and should have confidence when doing...

Forget en-suites and garden rooms, could you boost viewings with the postcode of a property? Research by comparison website Money.co.uk has identified...

Many Britains are apparently under-estimating the impact of furlough on their ability to get a mortgage and buy a property. A new...

An estate agency comparison website has conducted research into how much it costs to simply keep an average home in a...

Estate agency comparison website GetAgent has calculated the typical fees charged to vendors in different parts of the country. It says agents...

A rush to beat next week’s stamp duty holiday deadline has caused a 200 per cent increase in demand for removal...

New research has thrown light on how much buyers must pay on average to trade up to a property with one...

Over 500,000 homebuyers in England are set to benefit from the stamp duty holiday to the tune of £3.4 billion, according...

New research shows that UK estate agents are amongst the best value in the world. Using data from the Global Property Guide...

A controversial league table of corporate agents’ market share is deliberately excluding Purplebricks and other online agencies.  This is despite Purplebricks this...

The stamp duty holiday frenzy has reduced the gap between asking and sale prices according to new research. Before the start of...

A house price index that is routinely one of the most pessimistic about the market claims the New Year will see...

ZPG, parent company of Zoopla, is to buy another comparison website business, in addition to running its existing Uswitch service. Insurance group...

It now takes an average 12 days longer to complete a sale in Britain compared to a year ago - but...

New research attempts for the first time to identify the most lucrative property markets in the country - with surprising results...

Consumer group Which? says the stamp duty holiday has cut more than £4,000 from the average cost of moving home -...

The proportion of the asking price achieved on average in the past year is 95.8 per cent according to a new survey. Comparison...

Purplebricks has revealed that its new board member is one of the world’s leading digital executives.  Dr Stephanie Caspar is the new...

Purplebricks is starting a new wave of TV advertisements today, continuing its theme from earlier this year as a sponsor of...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Darren Loftus and it says Commercial Director on...

Agents’ declining income - the result of the lockdown and the collapse in transaction volumes - has been revealed for the...

The man who has been Rightmove’s head of innovation for the past five years has joined an online agency. Hannes Buhrmann has...

One of the first analyses of portal listings since the start of the Coronavirus crisis shows that new listings have plummeted...

Sellers in the past 12 months accepted an average of 96 per cent of their asking price according to new research. Comparison...

The average time it took a home to sell last year - measured from its first day listed on a portal...

Buyers and sellers changing their minds lie behind almost a third of fall-throughs - the single biggest reason why transactions collapse,...

Two very different views on Brexit have come forward in the past 24 hours from different players in the industry. First off,...

A new league table of High Street agents’ charges published over the weekend reveals the locations where agents charge an average...

Data from an agency comparison website reveals that in the current market it takes well over a year for a home...

A yet-to-launch estate agency comparison site is nearing its crowdfunding target of £50,000. Invite Agents, which is crowdfunding on crowdcube, had, as...

New research shows that three bedroom homes are the quickest selling property type this autumn. After a series of sluggish house price...

Some homes in the UK are now worth 44 per cent less than they were a decade ago, claims the estate...

Sellers across England and Wales achieve an average 95.94 per cent of their asking price according to research from estate agency...

Some estate agents are charging as much as 2.9 per cent commission according to a survey by comparison website GetAgent. While the...

Improved communication and increased transparency throughout the buying process can manage vendors’ expectations, improve satisfaction scores and create long-term clients. That’s the...

A survey suggests there’s no firm correlation between a traditional agency’s opening hours and its performance in selling property - and...

New research by comparison website GoCompare suggests almost a million house sales have been lost because of Brexit.  The study claims that...

A recent survey conducted by comparison website GetAgent found that traditional high street agents have been given a firm thumbs up...

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

The founder and former chief executive of Emoov, Russell Quirk, is back in the headlines with a new but until now...

GetAgent, the comparison estate agency business, has secured £2.2m in investment from a consortium of investors including Channel 4. The backers are...

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

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

Property industry commentator and former online agency chief executive Russell Quirk has defended Rightmove’s charges to agents, saying that compared to...

Research by comparison website Netanagent claims the commission paid to estate agents in London could be over £70,000 depending on where...