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28 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Trouble Ahead? Bank downgrades 11 property firms as worries mount](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
The UK real estate industry faces a “particularly precarious” situation in the near to medium term, according to analysts at the...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter - 2023? Keep calm and carry on](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
Happy New Year, to you all. Now that we’re all back in harness and Christmas feels like a long-distant memory, I...
14 January 2023
From: Features
![Government set to miss affordable housing targets - warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-2-400x310.png)
The Government has been urged to revise its plans for affordable housing as MPs warn it is set to fall short...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency stocks brush off HSBC’s warnings of housing market downturn](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-3-400x310.jpg)
Estate agency share prices had a mixed response to dire warnings about housing demand and prices issued by HSBC last week. The...
05 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Uncertainty remains over housing’s importance to new PM, says expert](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Summer-400x310.jpg)
A property expert has claimed that it remains to be seen where housing will feature in the upcoming political agenda. Nicky Stevenson,...
12 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Savills warns house price correction chatter is overstated](/upload/images/Logos/Savills-NEW-logo400x310.png)
House price growth is set to slow but talk of a correction is overstated, Savills claims. The latest house price forecasts from...
01 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer - Reassuring Vendors In A Changing Market](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PhilSpencer-MoveIQ-EATLAT-400x310.jpg)
There seems a consensus amongst agents, analysts and amateur pundits alike that the market will stay relatively strong for some months,...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![“No meaningful price growth” in prime central London, admits agency](/upload/images/library/PrimeLondonHousesArc-400x310.jpg)
Savills has revised its price forecasts for prime property market across the UK, but when it coms to prime central London...
11 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks downgrade signals booming independent agents - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
International investment bank UBS has double-downgraded Purplebricks from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’ - and that could be good for independent agents, a...
22 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Say No To Rightmove leader demands “no return to full tariff”](/img/default/eat.png)
The leader of the Say No To Rightmove campaign says that agents are demanding that there is “no return to full...
17 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove downgraded as bank warns of agency closures accelerating](/img/default/eat.png)
Investment bank RBC Capital has downgraded its rating of Rightmove and is warning that the property market is entering a prolonged...
17 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agency downgrades London and UK market forecasts](/img/default/eat.png)
Cluttons has downgraded its forecasts for the housing markets in London and the rest of the UK for the remainder of...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Searches delayed by council IT issues but no total shutdown](/img/default/eat.png)
A local authority that last week warned that it could not provide any local searches for over six weeks has now...
05 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: Rightmove fails to understand first rule of innovation](/img/default/eat.png)
The recent announcement of a clicktopurchase partnership demonstrates some much-needed progression from Rightmove. In doing so, however, it could be said it...
17 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks share price slides further following Michael Bruce departure](/img/default/eat.png)
Following yesterday's surprise news that founder Michael Bruce is leaving the business and its Australian operation is closing down, Purplebricks encountered...
08 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks is hugely successful despite tumbling share price says analyst](/img/default/eat.png)
A PropTech analyst insists that the tumbling share price of Purplebricks on the London Stock Exchange does not indicate that the...
23 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks stock downgraded 80% by investment bank](/img/default/eat.png)
Analysts at Berenberg Bank have sharply reduced their price target for Purplebricks by over 80 per cent from 470p to 80p, accusing...
05 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Savills silent on Yopa after massive write-down by LSL](/img/default/eat.png)
Savills has declined to comment on whether it will follow in the footsteps of LSL Property Services and write down its...
07 March 2019
From: Breaking News
!['Bigger Countrywide losses to come' warns broker advising investors to sell](/img/default/eat.png)
One of Countrywide’s former allies in the City broker community - independent corporate advisor Numis - has downgraded the troubled agency...
27 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![What next for property in 2018?](/img/default/eat.png)
What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...
30 December 2017
From: Features
![Countrywide shares hit record low after bank downgrading](/img/default/eat.png)
Swiss bank UBS has downgraded Countrywide’s status to ‘sell’ in a move which has prompted the troubled estate agency’s share price...
16 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide: City analyst less gloomy about group's prospects](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide’s long-term share price decline and turbulent branch closure programme have not prevented a relatively positive endorsement of the group’s strategy and...
16 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide: Platt's revolution goes on despite latest share price slump](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt has told Estate Agent Today the transformation she wishes to see within the group may take...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide, Foxtons and other property shares tumble thanks to Hammond](/img/default/eat.png)
Share prices for both Foxtons and Countrywide took a significant tumble yesterday as news of the ban on letting agents’ fees...
24 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Whither Countrywide](/img/default/eat.png)
Although Brexit, portal juggling and portal wars have stolen property industry headlines in recent months, there's been one story almost constantly...
05 November 2016
From: Features
![Countrywide share price slides but LSL bats off City downgrade](/img/default/eat.png)
The share prices of Countrywide and LSL Property Services diverged yesterday in response to both agency groups being downgraded by influential...
26 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide downgraded by City investment consultancy](/img/default/eat.png)
Jefferies, a major City adviser, is downgrading its 2016 estimate for Countrywide’s performance over the rest of this year. In a statement...
25 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Forecast of only modest market slowdown thanks to Brexit](/img/default/eat.png)
The Centre for Economics and Business Research says that house prices across the UK are set to increase by 5.7 per...
02 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Post-Brexit slump 'could wipe 50% off portals and Purplebricks' claim](/img/default/eat.png)
The Motley Fool, a widely-read City investment column, says a Leave vote could result in a fall in housing market transaction...