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The term ‘time bomb’ is sometimes overly used in the housing market, and while it has been linked to many things...

Referral fees for estate agents could be back in the sights of industry regulators. It was reported last week that the National...

It may be all change - again - at the Department of Levelling Up, Communities and Local Government if media speculation...

Savills and the Daily Telegraph newspaper have combined to produce a league table of what they claim to be Britain’s 50...

Homebuyers are entering bidding wars for bungalows, a property expert claims. The Daily Telegraph recently reported that young professionals in their 20s and...

Sellers are being warned to check their home for Japanese knotweed and disclose any details after a former homeowner was sued...

Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng? I don’t mean who would like their power, pay and...

When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...

A lack of support to help people onto the property ladder has been highlighted as one factor for the Tory party’s...

Former Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is believed to have become the first MP to take in Ukrainian refugees under the government’s...

The controversial conveyancing firm at the centre of an apparent cyber attack has hit back at newspaper claims that it did...

The current ratings of the Energy Performance Certificate are under review according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy. A...

Purplebricks has this morning said that a newspaper report over the weekend, claiming part of the business is to be sold...

Propertymark is to probe Purplebricks over its lettings fiasco - and as the agency becomes a subject of ridicule in the...

Purplebricks’ share price has hit its lowest-ever level following the postponement of a trading statement after the company admitted a blunder...

Purplebricks is delaying release of its half-year figures which were scheduled to be given to shareholders tomorrow. This follows revelations in the Daily...

An England football manager who resigned after a newspaper sting is in a podcast series launched by Boomin and Purplebricks founders Michael and Kenny...

An estate agency owner who is also a qualified independent mortgage adviser has hit out against the suggestion that lenders may...

It’s been revealed that the government did consider a stamp duty RISE which would have been announced in this week’s Budget. The...

The Chancellor’s rumoured six week extension to the stamp duty holiday has been backed by Rightmove. Over last weekend the Daily Telegraph,...

Agents and conveyancers are expressing doubt over whether a possible six week extension to the stamp duty holiday will be enough...

The Chancellor is considering extending the stamp duty holiday for a short period according to a newspaper report this morning. The Daily...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...

Two of the most outspoken agents in the industry have criticised those calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday...

A national newspaper is today launching a campaign for the stamp duty holiday to be extended. The Daily Telegraph says its campaign...

Criticism of the management of Countrywide has reached new levels of derision as the mainstream media have attacked the chaos surrounding...

A right wing magazine once edited by Boris Johnson has called estate agents “spivs with tape measures” who conceal information from...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to create a ‘Generation Buy’ to help young people purchase homes with low-deposit mortgages. In...

Hefty increases in taxes on the purchase and sale of holiday homes and buy to let properties are expected in the...

Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...

Only half of the branches signed up to Zoopla have taken advantage of one or other of the discount offers made...

Purplebricks faces an imminent takeover bid following the collapse of its share price, predicts a leading industry analyst. Andrew Stanton has already...

OnTheMarket is not responding to requests to reveal details of any pay-off for its chief executive Ian Springett, who was sacked...

Purplebricks banked more than £18m in fees for thousands of homes it did not sell last year according to this morning’s...

Buying agents are making waves about the hit on asking prices suffered by properties that have been flooded or are at...

Conservatives have been lining up to criticise a mansion tax which may be introduced on expensive homes to fund infrastructure improvements...

Unsourced stories in a number of newspapers over the weekend - all likely to have come from government off-the-record briefings -...

The prospective buyers of a home in Oxfordshire who paid a deposit of £108,000 before withdrawing are suing the sellers in...

If anyone thought a Boris Johnson government would be more decisive than Theresa May's when it came to housing policies, the last...

Advertising on Zoopla is a must-have for most sellers but for Susan Tate in Anglesey it meant she ended up in...

A note sent out by OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has suggested that the way estate agents work may directly lead...

Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has expressed an interest in switching the stamp duty burden from buyers to sellers. Until now Johnson’s comments on...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

New figures from HM Revenue and Customs suggest that stamp duty receipts have fallen by no less than £1 billion. The drop...

An ex-housing minister and ex-Brexit secretary says he wants to radically change taxes on buy to let capital appreciation to help...

An owner who enhanced the price of his property by illegally hacking branches off a tree has ordered to pay back...

The Daily Telegraph has gone public with City speculation that Chicago-based real estate consultancy JLL may be interested in buying Savills. Both...

He may not yet have had time to produce a Brexit plan but Boris Johnson has at least had a few...

It’s been an interesting week of contrasts when it comes to online replacing ‘the old school’. Data from that clever consultancy The...

“I’ll have a vowel please Rachel….then an award.” The puns are likely to be much in evidence in the New Year when...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says it wants to simplify the system of surveys by scrapping the three current options...

Akshay Ruparelia, the young founder and head of the online agency Doorsteps, has been shortlisted for one of the most prestigious...

An insurance company is launching a policy which it says will protect consumers with comprehensive cover in the event of a...

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

Outspoken property commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has made a scathing attack on some of the main house price indices. In...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

The prospect of technology transforming the selling and buying process, including more power for portals and especially online agents, dominated parts...

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...

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

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

It has been revealed that the beleaguered government of Theresa May is to hold a summit at 10 Downing Street tomorrow...

The Daily Telegraph claims that what it calls “dodgy practices” are leaving customers “thousands of pounds out of pocket.” The article quotes...

The growing anger of some OnTheMarket member agents about the portal’s parent company proposal to float on the London Stock Exchange...

Stamp duty has become the latest weapon in the ongoing war of words between different wings of the Conservative party, as...

When it comes to provoking anger in property professionals, taxation takes some beating. Press releases are still arriving berating the December...

The controversial raffle of a home reportedly purchased in 2014 under the Right To Buy scheme for just £360,000 is back...

The government has admitted that the three per cent stamp duty surcharge has raked in twice as much as expected. In November...

A series of leaks to national newspapers and a flurry of broadcast interviews by housing minister Gavin Barwell means we already know...

The head of a new ‘disruptive’ online mortgage service says 2017 will see more major estate agency and other property businesses...

An estate agent spotted her father’s house advertised on Rightmove just three days before it was due to be auctioned -...

London agency Stirling Ackroyd is the latest to call for reforms to stamp duty, with a claim that prices for the most expensive...

Agents selling homes at the high end of the market have generally welcomed the Daily Telegraph campaign to persuade the Chancellor...

The Daily Telegraph has this morning launched a campaign calling on Chancellor Phillip Hammond to slash stamp duty. The newspaper - a...

A campaign organisation is asking estate agency group Fisher German how professional assistance it is giving to fracking development can be...

Next week sees a court case which will decide whether there will have to be a re-run of the ‘second homes...

The highest number of second homes in UK local authority areas exist not in the south west, the Lake District or...

It’s been a heartening few weeks for those of us who thought that protest was dead – or, more precisely, that...

It’s a headline from an Australian business journal this week but it has a familiar ring to it: “Estate agents’ attempts...

The National Association of Estate Agents has waded into the row created by the revelation that the government’s Help To Buy...

The Daily Telegraph appears to have exposed the government’s much-vaunted Buy To Let ISA scheme - billed as helping first time...

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...

A report says agents in the Cornish holiday home haven of St Ives admit the local market has been hit by...

YOPA, the online agency which recently won financial backing from high end consultancy Savills, is on the look out for an...

The government is staying tight-lipped about it for the moment but there may be a major shake-up in house buying on...

I wish it were otherwise, but there’s a crisis just beginning to sweep over newspapers – with, a bit beneath the...

There has been a broad welcome for what would appear to be a government U-turn over the imposition of the stamp...

The former secretary of state at the Department of Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, is to write to Chancellor George...

More storm clouds appeared over central London’s housing market at the weekend. The Bank of Ireland has announced that it is capping...

One of the leading members of the Bank of England's influential Monetary Policy Committee has suggested that the recent fall-back in...

The big online estate agencies appear to have come of age. No, no - I'm not saying they're good, bad, better or...

A TV property show presenter and an estate agent's wife have reportedly been involved in a lurid fight that started with...

The party's over. It's probably the best double entendre in the world of politics right now. For centre or right-leaning Labour...

A member of the Bank of England’s key Monetary Policy Committee says waiting too long to raise interest rates risks undermining...

The government is reported to be considering a policy of capping prices of some homes in the countryside to ensure they...

With just a few days to go before the formal start of the new football season, the much-publicisied possible easyProperty sponsorship...

An agent has defended his decision to put 142 photographs of a property on its Rightmove listing after an unexpected criticism...

A new-build penthouse in Mayfair, handled jointly by Knight Frank and Wetherell agencies,  has broken the price record for any residential...

A high-end estate agency which closed unexpectedly in April is now reported to have been hit by low demand for homes...

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...