Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has pledged not to raise Stamp Duty as part of a Family Home Tax Guarantee. Writing in the Daily...
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![Potential ticking time bomb for retrofit complaints awaits](/upload/images/2%20--%20Proofed%20Weekend%20feature%20-%20potential%20ticking%20time%20bomb%20By%20Simon%20Jackson.jpg)
The term ‘time bomb’ is sometimes overly used in the housing market, and while it has been linked to many things...
06 April 2024
From: Features
![Agencies favouring lower offers to get referral fees - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
Referral fees for estate agents could be back in the sights of industry regulators. It was reported last week that the National...
25 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Speculation about Gove future as reshuffle likely in September](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
It may be all change - again - at the Department of Levelling Up, Communities and Local Government if media speculation...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency produces controversial league table of ‘best towns’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BTR%20and%20affordable%20housing%20-%20By%20Andy%20Jones%20Property%20Investor%20Today%20BuildToRent-400x310.png)
Savills and the Daily Telegraph newspaper have combined to produce a league table of what they claim to be Britain’s 50...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Buyers entering bidding wars for bungalows - claim](/upload/images/shutterstock_1657604122.jpg)
Homebuyers are entering bidding wars for bungalows, a property expert claims. The Daily Telegraph recently reported that young professionals in their 20s and...
24 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Seller sued after buyer discovers Japanese knotweed in garden](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Court-UK-400x310.png)
Sellers are being warned to check their home for Japanese knotweed and disclose any details after a former homeowner was sued...
26 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Poor Liz and Kwasi. What Do They Do Now?](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/LizTruss01-400x310.png)
Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng? I don’t mean who would like their power, pay and...
01 October 2022
From: Features
![Rishi-Tweedle-Dum and Liz-Tweedle-DumDum](/img/default/eat.png)
When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...
23 July 2022
From: Features
![Lack of home buying support blamed for Tory local election losses](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
A lack of support to help people onto the property ladder has been highlighted as one factor for the Tory party’s...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Former Housing Secretary becomes first MP to welcome Ukrainian refugees](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/RobertJenrick-400x310.jpg)
Former Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is believed to have become the first MP to take in Ukrainian refugees under the government’s...
19 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Controversial conveyancer hits back at 'forgotten stamp duty' claim](/upload/images/library/Stamp-Duty400x310.png)
The controversial conveyancing firm at the centre of an apparent cyber attack has hit back at newspaper claims that it did...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Shock move to review EPCs after rating problem identified](/upload/images/library/EPCRating-400x310.png)
The current ratings of the Energy Performance Certificate are under review according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy. A...
08 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks denies sell-off rumour](/upload/images/Logos/Purplebricks-2019Logo-400x310.jpg)
Purplebricks has this morning said that a newspaper report over the weekend, claiming part of the business is to be sold...
04 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Investigation opens into Purplebricks as agency hit by latest crisis](/upload/images/Logos/Purplebricks-2019Logo-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark is to probe Purplebricks over its lettings fiasco - and as the agency becomes a subject of ridicule in the...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Share Crash - Purplebricks hits all-time low after deposit fiasco](/upload/images/Logos/Purplebricks-2019Logo-400x310.jpg)
Purplebricks’ share price has hit its lowest-ever level following the postponement of a trading statement after the company admitted a blunder...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks delays report to shareholders after latest legal crisis](/upload/images/Logos/Purplebricks-TeamGB-Board-400x310.jpg)
Purplebricks is delaying release of its half-year figures which were scheduled to be given to shareholders tomorrow. This follows revelations in the Daily...
13 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Controversial football boss links with Bruce Brothers and Boomin](/upload/images/Logos/BoominVoicesPodcast-400x310.jpg)
An England football manager who resigned after a newspaper sting is in a podcast series launched by Boomin and Purplebricks founders Michael and Kenny...
10 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agent lashes out against any relaxation of mortgage lending](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-1-400x310.jpg)
An estate agency owner who is also a qualified independent mortgage adviser has hit out against the suggestion that lenders may...
09 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tax Shock: 1% stamp duty rise was considered for Budget](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/RishiSunak-400x310.jpg)
It’s been revealed that the government did consider a stamp duty RISE which would have been announced in this week’s Budget. The...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Six week stamp duty holiday extension would help 160,000](/img/default/eat.png)
The Chancellor’s rumoured six week extension to the stamp duty holiday has been backed by Rightmove. Over last weekend the Daily Telegraph,...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Mayhem: Is a six week extension long enough?](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents and conveyancers are expressing doubt over whether a possible six week extension to the stamp duty holiday will be enough...
15 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty holiday may be extended for some buyers - report](/img/default/eat.png)
The Chancellor is considering extending the stamp duty holiday for a short period according to a newspaper report this morning. The Daily...
13 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Has the Stamp Duty Holiday extension campaign worked?](/img/default/eat.png)
There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...
06 February 2021
From: Features
![Cliff-edge end to Stamp Duty Holiday will not hurt market, says analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents accused of “feigning hysterics” over stamp duty cliff-edge](/img/default/eat.png)
Two of the most outspoken agents in the industry have criticised those calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday...
14 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Out The Duty - new campaign launched by newspaper](/img/default/eat.png)
A national newspaper is today launching a campaign for the stamp duty holiday to be extended. The Daily Telegraph says its campaign...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![“Knackered” Countrywide suffers media onslaught](/img/default/eat.png)
Criticism of the management of Countrywide has reached new levels of derision as the mainstream media have attacked the chaos surrounding...
27 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents are ’spivs with tape measures’ says angry press article](/img/default/eat.png)
A right wing magazine once edited by Boris Johnson has called estate agents “spivs with tape measures” who conceal information from...
09 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Tories pledge “revolutionary” low deposit mortgages for FTBs](/img/default/eat.png)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to create a ‘Generation Buy’ to help young people purchase homes with low-deposit mortgages. In...
05 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Big rises in property taxes expected to pay for virus spending](/img/default/eat.png)
Hefty increases in taxes on the purchase and sale of holiday homes and buy to let properties are expected in the...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![How’s the housing market? Ask again in September…](/img/default/eat.png)
Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...
16 May 2020
From: Features
![Only half of Zoopla’s branches have taken up ‘free deal’ offers](/img/default/eat.png)
Only half of the branches signed up to Zoopla have taken advantage of one or other of the discount offers made...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks faces takeover as shares slump, predicts analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
Purplebricks faces an imminent takeover bid following the collapse of its share price, predicts a leading industry analyst. Andrew Stanton has already...
16 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket not revealing pay-off for sacked Ian Springett](/img/default/eat.png)
OnTheMarket is not responding to requests to reveal details of any pay-off for its chief executive Ian Springett, who was sacked...
10 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks banked £18m fees for unsold homes in 2019 - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
Purplebricks banked more than £18m in fees for thousands of homes it did not sell last year according to this morning’s...
02 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Flooded houses could suffer 30% hit on asking prices, says agent](/img/default/eat.png)
Buying agents are making waves about the hit on asking prices suffered by properties that have been flooded or are at...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Johnson’s Mansion Tax: angry Tories hit out at ‘socialism lite’](/img/default/eat.png)
Conservatives have been lining up to criticise a mansion tax which may be introduced on expensive homes to fund infrastructure improvements...
11 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Housing Minister McVey to be sacked this week, briefings suggest](/img/default/eat.png)
Unsourced stories in a number of newspapers over the weekend - all likely to have come from government off-the-record briefings -...
10 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Buyers who paid £100k deposit sue vendors after withdrawing offer](/img/default/eat.png)
The prospective buyers of a home in Oxfordshire who paid a deposit of £108,000 before withdrawing are suing the sellers in...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty chaos as new Chancellor denies he wants sellers to pay](/img/default/eat.png)
If anyone thought a Boris Johnson government would be more decisive than Theresa May's when it came to housing policies, the last...
19 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![It's a fur cop: how a Zoopla listing landed a seller in court](/img/default/eat.png)
Advertising on Zoopla is a must-have for most sellers but for Susan Tate in Anglesey it meant she ended up in...
19 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket boss tells agents not to increase Rightmove exec bonuses](/img/default/eat.png)
A note sent out by OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has suggested that the way estate agents work may directly lead...
30 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Boris Johnson considers asking SELLERS to pay stamp duty](/img/default/eat.png)
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...
16 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Blond ambition - Does Boris Johnson have any housing policies?](/img/default/eat.png)
Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...
22 June 2019
From: Features
![Stamp Duty plummets by £1 billion following surcharge backfire](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures from HM Revenue and Customs suggest that stamp duty receipts have fallen by no less than £1 billion. The drop...
25 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Slash stamp duty and scrap CGT on buy to let sales, says top Tory](/img/default/eat.png)
An ex-housing minister and ex-Brexit secretary says he wants to radically change taxes on buy to let capital appreciation to help...
16 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Value added to house is 'confiscated' by Proceeds of Crime Act](/img/default/eat.png)
An owner who enhanced the price of his property by illegally hacking branches off a tree has ordered to pay back...
25 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Is Savills about to be snapped up by US real estate company?](/img/default/eat.png)
The Daily Telegraph has gone public with City speculation that Chicago-based real estate consultancy JLL may be interested in buying Savills. Both...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News
08 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Newspapers are in freefall - what does it mean for agents?](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been an interesting week of contrasts when it comes to online replacing ‘the old school’. Data from that clever consultancy The...
12 January 2019
From: Features
![Countdown’s Rachel to host Guild of Property Professionals awards](/img/default/eat.png)
“I’ll have a vowel please Rachel….then an award.” The puns are likely to be much in evidence in the New Year when...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Simpler surveys - RICS wants to scrap three current survey options](/img/default/eat.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says it wants to simplify the system of surveys by scrapping the three current options...
25 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Young online agency boss in the running for top entrepreneur award](/img/default/eat.png)
Akshay Ruparelia, the young founder and head of the online agency Doorsteps, has been shortlisted for one of the most prestigious...
18 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property fraud: insurance firm offers cover, as police seek help on new case](/img/default/eat.png)
An insurance company is launching a policy which it says will protect consumers with comprehensive cover in the event of a...
04 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Boris Johnson wants absurdly high stamp duty to be cut](/img/default/eat.png)
Boris Johnson is calling for a cut to Britain’s “absurdly high” stamp duty. Writing in this morning’s Daily Telegraph - the same newspaper...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Pundit Henry Pryor in scathing attack on house price indices](/img/default/eat.png)
Outspoken property commentator and buying agent Henry Pryor has made a scathing attack on some of the main house price indices. In...
06 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Estate agency as it used to be - EAT looks back at 2008](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![A revolution: 'Local agents may not survive much into next decade'](/img/default/eat.png)
The prospect of technology transforming the selling and buying process, including more power for portals and especially online agents, dominated parts...
14 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: Day in the life of…a property journalist](/img/default/eat.png)
Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...
05 May 2018
From: Features
![Holiday home sales holding up according to estate agency's figures](/img/default/eat.png)
Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...
29 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty: pressure building on government for more reforms](/img/default/eat.png)
Pressure is continuing to build on the government to reform stamp duty in next month’s Budget. Firstly a group of senior financial...
20 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government to hold housing summit tomorrow as it scrambles for ideas](/img/default/eat.png)
It has been revealed that the beleaguered government of Theresa May is to hold a summit at 10 Downing Street tomorrow...
16 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Whistleblower claims dodgy practices by agents cost public thousands](/img/default/eat.png)
The Daily Telegraph claims that what it calls “dodgy practices” are leaving customers “thousands of pounds out of pocket.” The article quotes...
11 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![OnTheMarket dispute over Springett's £20m reaches national press](/img/default/eat.png)
The growing anger of some OnTheMarket member agents about the portal’s parent company proposal to float on the London Stock Exchange...
29 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Newspapers ramp up pressure for further reform of stamp duty](/img/default/eat.png)
Stamp duty has become the latest weapon in the ongoing war of words between different wings of the Conservative party, as...
14 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Forget stamp duty reform - There’s a new tax on the horizon](/img/default/eat.png)
When it comes to provoking anger in property professionals, taxation takes some beating. Press releases are still arriving berating the December...
01 July 2017
From: Features
![Controversial £2.875m raffle of Right To Buy house is back on](/img/default/eat.png)
The controversial raffle of a home reportedly purchased in 2014 under the Right To Buy scheme for just £360,000 is back...
30 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty surcharge rakes in twice as much revenue as expected](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has admitted that the three per cent stamp duty surcharge has raked in twice as much as expected. In November...
13 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing White Paper - what to expect from today's release](/img/default/eat.png)
A series of leaks to national newspapers and a flurry of broadcast interviews by housing minister Gavin Barwell means we already know...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News
!['Expect more big agency firms to back online projects in 2017' - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
The head of a new ‘disruptive’ online mortgage service says 2017 will see more major estate agency and other property businesses...
30 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agent spots her father's house fraudulently listed on Rightmove](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent spotted her father’s house advertised on Rightmove just three days before it was due to be auctioned -...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![More agents back call for lower stamp duty on expensive properties](/img/default/eat.png)
London agency Stirling Ackroyd is the latest to call for reforms to stamp duty, with a claim that prices for the most expensive...
18 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agents back newspaper call to slash high-end homes' stamp duty](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents selling homes at the high end of the market have generally welcomed the Daily Telegraph campaign to persuade the Chancellor...
16 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![National newspaper launches campaign to slash stamp duty](/img/default/eat.png)
The Daily Telegraph has this morning launched a campaign calling on Chancellor Phillip Hammond to slash stamp duty. The newspaper - a...
15 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Estate agency group challenged over links with fracking firm](/img/default/eat.png)
A campaign organisation is asking estate agency group Fisher German how professional assistance it is giving to fracking development can be...
18 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Vital court case to be held next week to decide 'second homes ban'](/img/default/eat.png)
Next week sees a court case which will decide whether there will have to be a re-run of the ‘second homes...
29 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Highest number of second homes is in London, not tourist areas](/img/default/eat.png)
The highest number of second homes in UK local authority areas exist not in the south west, the Lake District or...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry protests work – so keep them up](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been a heartening few weeks for those of us who thought that protest was dead – or, more precisely, that...
09 September 2016
From: Features
![Why agents will always need portals](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s a headline from an Australian business journal this week but it has a familiar ring to it: “Estate agents’ attempts...
26 August 2016
From: Features
![NAEA wades into row over Help To Buy ISA 'deception' by government](/img/default/eat.png)
The National Association of Estate Agents has waded into the row created by the revelation that the government’s Help To Buy...
23 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Help To Buy ISAs exposed as not helping first time deposits after all](/img/default/eat.png)
The Daily Telegraph appears to have exposed the government’s much-vaunted Buy To Let ISA scheme - billed as helping first time...
22 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: online agents – where are they now?](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...
19 August 2016
From: Features
![Claim that housing market hurt by 'no new second homes' decision](/img/default/eat.png)
A report says agents in the Cornish holiday home haven of St Ives admit the local market has been hit by...
04 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Savills-backed online firm YOPA hunting for advertising agency](/img/default/eat.png)
YOPA, the online agency which recently won financial backing from high end consultancy Savills, is on the look out for an...
22 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![All change? Industry to be asked how to shake-up house buying](/img/default/eat.png)
The government is staying tight-lipped about it for the moment but there may be a major shake-up in house buying on...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Hold the front page? Don’t bother – no one reads it any more](/img/default/eat.png)
I wish it were otherwise, but there’s a crisis just beginning to sweep over newspapers – with, a bit beneath the...
06 May 2016
From: Features
![Welcome for government U-turn over duty surcharge on granny annexes](/img/default/eat.png)
There has been a broad welcome for what would appear to be a government U-turn over the imposition of the stamp...
13 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Cabinet member Pickles to ask Osborne to amend stamp duty surcharge](/img/default/eat.png)
The former secretary of state at the Department of Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, is to write to Chancellor George...
05 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Storm clouds darken over central London's housing market](/img/default/eat.png)
More storm clouds appeared over central London’s housing market at the weekend. The Bank of Ireland has announced that it is capping...
21 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Interest rate rise likely to be delayed further, hints key Bank of England figure](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the leading members of the Bank of England's influential Monetary Policy Committee has suggested that the recent fall-back in...
22 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Can easyProperty find its place amongst the new online establishment?](/img/default/eat.png)
The big online estate agencies appear to have come of age. No, no - I'm not saying they're good, bad, better or...
02 October 2015
From: Features
![TV property guru and estate agent's wife in alleged Sandbanks catfight](/img/default/eat.png)
A TV property show presenter and an estate agent's wife have reportedly been involved in a lurid fight that started with...
28 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Has Corbyn Labour-proofed lettings?](/img/default/eat.png)
The party's over. It's probably the best double entendre in the world of politics right now. For centre or right-leaning Labour...
25 September 2015
From: Features
![Key Bank of England figure hints at interest rate rise](/img/default/eat.png)
A member of the Bank of England’s key Monetary Policy Committee says waiting too long to raise interest rates risks undermining...
18 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government 'considering rural house price capping'](/img/default/eat.png)
The government is reported to be considering a policy of capping prices of some homes in the countryside to ensure they...
11 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![easyProperty and Spurs still talking on sponsorship](/img/default/eat.png)
With just a few days to go before the formal start of the new football season, the much-publicisied possible easyProperty sponsorship...
05 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove listing: agent justifies 142 photographs of just one property](/img/default/eat.png)
An agent has defended his decision to put 142 photographs of a property on its Rightmove listing after an unexpected criticism...
03 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![£7,000 pst sets 2015 London apartment record](/img/default/eat.png)
A new-build penthouse in Mayfair, handled jointly by Knight Frank and Wetherell agencies, has broken the price record for any residential...