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Mortgage rates may be falling but tougher lending criteria is stifling many borrowers, including high earners. Research by Investec has found the...

Fine & Country has partnered with currency specialist Lumon to help clients with services such as international money transfers. Lumon has more...

New data shows that a large majority of compliance professionals are worried about the crypto-currency related money laundering. The survey, which gathered...

International buyers appear to slowly be returning to the prime central London (PCL) market, according to Hamptons data. Figures released by the...

Readers of a certain age may remember 1983. The Space Shuttle Challenger made its first flight, Neil Kinnock was elected Labour leader,...

What’s the difference between Centralised Ledger Technology and Decentralised Ledger Technology? Repeat after me; centralised and decentralised ledgers and Distributed Ledger Technology...

As I watched Liz Truss take to the stage at this week’s Conservative Party conference, my eyes were drawn to the sign behind her. “Getting Britain...

The recovery of the prime central London property market is being hampered by a lack of international buyers and Russia’s invasion...

Between you and me, dear reader, I had little to no idea about what the metaverse was before researching it for...

Many people in recent years will have become familiar with challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling and Atom. Many will have...

PayProp’s recent Rental Confidence Index survey polled property professionals about their biggest concerns for 2022. Unsurprisingly, new regulations were a top...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

Boomin has issued research done on its behalf into the value of spare rooms - and it’s made some eccentric comparisons...

Imagine a world where you, as an agent, could focus on what you do best. Building and managing relationships, showing properties,...

The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...

Coadjute, the PropTech platform that aims to slash the length of property transactions, has announced a further £6m investment. Coadjute is a blockchain...

There is growing criticism of Savills on social media following the controversy over a racist tweet apparently sent from the personal...

Prices in prime central London grew by 0.3 per cent in the year to May - tiny rise but a significant...

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

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

The Competition and Markets Authority says it has pushed Facebook into taking new action to combat fake reviews - an issue...

The country producing the largest number of buyers of prime London properties is not China, nor from north America or the...

It must have been a close thing on Friday as to whose faces were looking the most glum - those at...

Mortgage approvals - a key indicator of short-term activity in the housing market - beat expectations in June according to Bank...

Tuesday mornings at 6am is usually my time to review all the latest PropTech news. This fires off ideas for my...

An estate agency has been targeted by scammers who leave fake reviews if they haven’t been given a pay-off. Minors & Brady...

The advantage given to overseas buyers when Sterling weakened during the long-running Brexit saga has returned with the arrival of the...

Yesterday (January 10 2020), the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) became law. It forms part of ongoing international efforts to tackle...

The government introduced the Fifth EU Money Laundering Directive into UK law just before Christmas - and it has a significant implication for...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

Agents have expressed quiet optimism that the market may be over the worst as it continues to show resilience in the...

An independent estate agency says a No Deal Brexit will prompt a “feeding frenzy” of foreign buyers who are already “piling...

Facebook is set to enter the cryptocurrency business with the big reveal of its formal plans scheduled for some point this...

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

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

What do BREXIT and PropTech have in common?  I got thinking about this question for a number of reasons this week but...

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

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

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

An estate agency that’s been commended for its flexible working has launched a recruitment drive for franchisees who would keep 75...

When Professor Andrew Baum’s PropTech 3.0 report was first published, a small event was held to celebrate the very first academic...

One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...

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

The UK’s real estate sector, embracing estate agencies as well as other aspects of the property industry, has been facing “increased...

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

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

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

This week, news broke of the ‘first bitcoin homes’ being sold in the UK by Go Move, an estate agency in...

Bitcoin has smashed into the headlines again recently with major news outlets describing the ever increasing worth of this wildly volatile...

The owner of a penthouse flat in London says he is willing to accept the cryptocurrency Bitcoin - providing the buyer...

In his PropTech 3.0 report, Andrew Baum dedicated an entire section to blockchain; it was titled: ‘Blockchain is coming – get...

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

The latest market snapshot by high-end agency Strutt & Parker reveals more bad news for London - despite the agency itself...

We’ve had the Bank of Mum and Dad so is the next big thing to hit the market a growing number...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

Property Vision, one of the country’s oldest and most respected buying agencies, has added its voice to those saying that stamp...

Sales of homes in prime central London improved towards the end of 2016 says Savills - but only after prices were...

Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...

Knight Frank says overseas buyers are not only benefitting from a significant drop in the effective price of central London properties...

It is fair to say that 2016 is a year full of surprises. Anyone who had the foresight to predict Britain...

The latest forecast for the housing market in 2017 and beyond includes a warning that Brexit uncertainty will create a slowdown...

I hate to be a party-pooper, but one of the agency industry’s coming-up-to-Christmas traditions is going to be particularly hard to undertake...

A London estate agency has revealed that it is offering local homeowners cash incentives for valuations and instructions. Keating Estates, based in...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

As post-Brexit referendum vote shockwaves continue to reverberate around stock markets and currency exchanges, many publicly-quoted property companies took a hit...

One of London’s most outspoken estate agents claims the prime minister who succeeds David Cameron could appoint a chancellor who will...

Agents have been giving their reaction to the shock Brexit referendum result - and their comments have ranged from the gloomy...

Property software supplier VTUK is the latest to warn that a Brexit could have a damaging effect on the supply of...

Prices are wobbling in the London housing market, with the referendum and ongoing currency fluctuations being two of the major causes. That...

I pride myself as a logical person, so much so that it amazes me how most people seem to struggle to...

A vote by Britain to leave the European Union would be the saviour of the beleaguered high end housing market according...

The dramatic slump in the sale of London’s most expensive homes is continuing with one agency claiming that over the past...