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Property market conditions in the new-build sector are likely to remain subdued this year. Persimmon has claimed. An outlook in the house...

Buyer demand for homes in England has hit its lowest recorded levels since 2015, according to the latest House Builders’ Survey...

The property market is set for its quietest year for sales since 2012, Zoopla claims. The portal’s latest House Price Index estimates...

The worst of the pricing adjustment in response to higher mortgage rates appears to be behind us, Zoopla has claimed. The portal’s...

New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

The property sector braced itself for the chill wind of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement this week. His pre-Budget comment that he...

Property professionals heralded the end of the low interest era yesterday after the latest Bank of England base rate hike. The Bank...

The property jobs market hasn't taken a summer holiday this month. Here are some of the latest moves that took place during...

In this Guides & Tips piece, Brian Murphy, Head of Lending at Mortgage Advice Bureau, offers insight into what rate rises...

The latest house price index from Zoopla has suggested the market remains resilient in the face of the cost-of-living crisis, but...

The property supply shortage may be easing but Zoopla has warned it will still take some time for stock to be...

Demand in prime areas of London has fallen in the first quarter of the year, says estate agency Benham and Reeves. The...

The founder of fledgling portal Boomin says the latest Nationwide house price index findings demonstrate that there’s no sign yet of...

Will he stay or will he go? You don’t need me to say who ‘he’ is - it’s the only story...

Another day, another house price index record. The latest, from the Halifax, shows that typical house prices increased by over £24,500 in...

The average price of a house in the UK has hit £250,000 for the first time as the  market shows no...

The total value of homes in Britain has risen 20 per cent - that’s £1.6 trillion – in the past five...

The latest market snapshot of prime London by estate agency Benham and Reeves shows demand up 5.8 per cent annually for...

What estate agency is going to look like in the post-pandemic world, and what the role of the physical branch will...

2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...

Later this year, on October 22, the ESTAS 2021 will take place in London. The glittering ceremony will welcome property professionals...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

Zoopla's latest figures suggest 70,000 transactions are likely to miss the stamp duty holiday deadline of March 31.  And the portal says: “The...

The strong house price growth experienced in recent months could soon be 'marred' by oversupply, according to Home.co.uk. The property website says...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

Rightmove is warning of a conveyancing log-jam that may delay sales, despite the ongoing frenzy of activity and faster transactions for...

Zoopla says while there may be speculation about people fleeing London and big urban areas for the countryside, the evidence suggests...

Zoopla's Research and Insight Director Richard Donnell writes: Just over a fortnight on since the Chancellor announced the Stamp Duty holiday and...

We recently issued our Zoopla House Price Index, which analyses the latest real-time trends from the sales market. In our analysis, we...

Agents have remained calm in the light of Nationwide’s house price index which shows the first annual fall for eight years...

There’s been a strong rebound in demand for homes and an “unprecedented” bounce in new sales agreed according to Zoopla. The portal...

Research from Zoopla suggests that demand from buyers across England surged 88 per cent shortly after the housing market reopened -...

London estate agency Benham & Reeves says there’s been a sharp fall-off in demand for ultra-expensive homes in prime suburbs of...

Demand for homes fell by 20 per cent year-on-year in December. There were 268 prospective home-owners registered per NAEA member branch, down...

A set of figures produced by Haart suggests the market has had a difficult past 12 months - but the firm...

The number of owners selling up and moving home is at its highest level since 2007 with one exception - London.  The...

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

The average home in England and Wales now sells for very nearly four per cent under its original asking price - a...

The director of a respected mortgage broker is warning that market sentiment is changing with more down-valuations from surveyors and some...

A housebuilder that has in the past profited from its concentration on high-end London schemes says demand for its units is...

Uncertainty - even that which existed before the EU referendum just a week ago today - means demand for property has...

The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead of the upcoming EU referendum is causing high levels of uncertainty...

More outdated office space should be converted into residential property in order to combat the UK’s shortage of homes, according to...

It’s time to take a pause, to reflect and put into context—and what a year it has been for our industry...

UK house prices increase 10.5 per cent annually to an average of £224,242 - a price fuelled by the number of...

Demand for homes last month hit an eight-month high according to the National Association of Estate Agents. But as individual agents have...

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

The demand for homes in the capital remained robust during Q1 2015, according to Chestertons’ London Prime Residential Report for spring...