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When we talk in general terms about the UK housing market, we tend to draw a picture of generality. Facts and figures...

Regulated firms across all sectors will be well aware of Know Your Customer (KYC) checks and their importance in combatting financial...

Housing affordability ratios have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels but remain high, Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows. The latest figures...

House price growth may have slowed last year but homeowners who sold their property still made an average gain of £74,000...

The complexities of the government’s leasehold reform proposals affecting millions of homeowners came under the spotlight at a seminar organised by...

Downsizers across England and Wales could unlock an average £305,090 by moving from a four bed to a two-bed home, according...

The times, they are indeed a-changin’. But what Dylan may not have appreciated, however, was how fast that change would be...

Conveyancing fees increased by around 6% last year, analysis suggests. Property Solvers’ annual research of legal practices in England and Wales has...

Downsizers could free up an estimated £209,215 worth of equity, according to research from national estate agency Jackson-Stops. Its annual research on the ‘downsizer...

The average household in England and Wales who purchased in the past 20 years and sold last year achieved profits of...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during May’s local election campaigning,...

Redrow has today launched a nationwide quest to find the longest standing owner of one of its homes. As it celebrates its...

The property market could be in for a strong end to the year based on typical seasonal trends, research suggests, New research...

A new product has launched that protects homeowners from the growing threat of property-related frauds. Title Guardian is an app that monitors...

Homebuyer appetite has abruptly fallen across all regions this year, new data suggests. Property purchasing specialist the House Buyer Bureau measured transactions...

Three members of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners take a brief look at some of the trials and tribulations awaiting...

Propertymark has given its backing to commitments from the Housing Minister on the long-awaited next steps of leasehold reform. Timothy Douglas, head...

All new houses in England and Wales will have to be sold as freehold properties under government plans to phase out...

Simon Jackson is Managing Director of SDL Surveying If we look at the latest data, it looks like there is something of...

A proposed cut in stamp duty by the Westminster government would be a welcome boost to homebuyers and would need to...

Homes in England are less affordable and in worse condition than those in most other developed nations, new research claims. Analysis from the...

Rising numbers of property owners are dropping the asking price of their homes in a bid to secure a quick sale.  Latest...

The average home seller across England and Wales has achieved 97.3% of asking price, a -2.4% drop versus the previous six...

Irwin Mitchell has expanded its property practice with an investment in Scotland-based law firm Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie (WJM). The two firms...

The property transaction in England and Wales is a notoriously slow and fraught process, taking typically 150 days to complete, with...

I recently wrote that the long-gestating Renters Reform Bill, finally introduced in Parliament back in May, could be poorly timed, both...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during recent local election campaigning,...

Transactions for the first half of 2023 are at their lowest level since the financial crisis of 2007-09 as a result...

Hamptons is warning landlords disillusioned with buy to let that they may have missed the top of the sales market -...

A new self employed agency business that launched into the UK market last month claims its success elsewhere in the world...

We all want more transactions - the Holy Grail when it comes to agencies’ bottom lines - but an interesting aspect...

A successful European self-employed agency business has entered the UK market. With annual revenues of more than £500m and 20,000 partner agents,...

Parts B and C of Material Information guidance are on the horizon and expected to come into play this autumn. I caught...

TM Group, a high profile provider of data and technology services such as tmconvey, mio, and tmconnect, has been sold to...

The number of property sales in England and Wales has dropped by more than 50% so far this year, research suggests. Analysis...

New laws are set to give more estate agents the chance to sell charity land – as long as you are...

Flat owners have seen their service charges rise by 8% over the past year, research suggests. A new service charge index launched...

When it comes to the usage, and benefits of, providing upfront material information to all those involved in the home buying...

A high-profile agency brand has hit out at “cheerleader’ estate agents” who it claims encourage vendors to push up the asking...

OnTheMarket has signed a long-term listing agreement with national housebuilder Redrow. The building firm, with a network of 14 operational divisions across...

Homebuyers in Bolton are waiting as long as 21 weeks for local authority searches new research shows. Analysis by upfront information pack...

A year-long pilot of using upfront material Information by conveyancer Thomas Legal and search provider Conveyancing Data Services, a part of...

The proportion of new homes sold off-plan across England & Wales has slipped to the lowest level since 2013, new data...

The time it’s taking to sell a home across England and Wales has fallen by an average of 44 days, new...

From Google to Uber, convenience is embedded into contemporary culture. As a society, we’re propelled by on-demand living, with instant solutions for...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Hamptons: Agency brand Hamptons has announced it...

New 2023 research from Open Property Group found that just 41% of homes in England meet the recommended Energy Performance Certificate...

New analysis may called into question the experience of firms approved to check the Government’s flagship register of overseas entities (ROE). The...

Analysis by professional cash buyer and portfolio landlord, Landlord Buyer (part of Open Property Group), has revealed what costs make up...

ANY REPOSSESSION is a tragedy for the person involved, and latest figures indicate the number of victims falling victim is currently...

Agents may be regularly debating increasing their fees but property buyers and sellers are already used to paying more for conveyancing,...

Self-employed agency brand eXp UK has attracted a trio of former Purplebricks agents as it continues its expansion into Scotland and...

If journalists believed everything they received in their inboxes, you’d be forgiven for thinking the private rental sector was a shiny,...

Homeowners who purchased a property over the past 20 years and sold in 2022 typically made a gross profit of more...

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

Chestertons has released its housing market forecasts for 2023, predicting that prices will only see a “slight dip” next year before...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

In this feature, Jonathan Daines looks at how landlords can do their bit to make the rental market greener. Global leaders have...

The World Cup is set to kick off in Qatar this weekend and Estate Agent Today has compiled a team of...

Agents have managed to secure a buyer two weeks faster for their vendors so far this year compared with in 2021,...

OnTheMarket has agreed an exclusive partnership with industry marketing provider NicheCom, to supply the portal’s agents across England and Wales with...

New research from GetAgent has outlined where the UK’s best-performing estate agents are currently located when it comes to the price secured...

Fine & Country has partnered with ListGlobally to feature all of their UK property listings on 106 international portals worldwide, according...

Letting agents and landlords who know how to avoid deposit disputes at the end of a tenancy can save time, money,...

Around one-third of properties on the portals are ‘fake listings,’ it has been claimed. Industry analyst Charlie Lamdin, founder of estate agency...

One of the biggest frustrations people have with the home buying and selling process is the amount of time it takes...

A property expert has claimed that it remains to be seen where housing will feature in the upcoming political agenda. Nicky Stevenson,...

Dye & Durham says it could potentially appeal the decision by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) to effectively disallow its acquistion...

Despite the cost-of-living crisis causing many to tighten their belts and the beginnings of a slowdown of the property market, the...

Estate agents in Scotland are bucking the sales slowdown trend, Homesearch claims. The property data and prospecting platform, which recently launched north...

Agents are currently achieving 99.4% of the asking price on listings, research shows.  The figure, calculated by agency comparison website GetAgent based...

More than 100,000 property transactions have benefitted from access to digitised local land charges (LLCs) data. Conveyancing software provider Search Acumen has...

Homeowners in England and Wales overvalue their properties by an average of 8%, research suggests. Property buying firm Quick Move Now compared...

RE/MAX has signed a software contract with Zoopla-owned Alto. The two-year agreement means that all of RE/MAX’s 250 plus associates across England...

Rural areas are dominating the boost in property supply. Agents have reported an improvement in sales stock in recent weeks. Analysis by Knight...

Property data and estate agent prospecting platform Homesearch is expanding north of the border. After three years of operation in England and...

More than half of properties across England and Wales only meet insulation standards of 1976 or older. The startling figures, based on...

Propertymark has given its backing to the ban on ground rents for new leasehold properties and has reminded agents of their...

All regions of the UK remain in a seller’s market as the traditional spring selling season begins for agents. Housing market consultancy...

An industry group is predicting that record numbers of homes sold this year will be off-plan. The National Association of Property Buyers...

Propertymark says only a national retrofitting programme  can make UK homes more energy efficient - and it says a new government...

A government aim to improve the home buying process by making Local Land Charge search results instantly available is well underway,...

The extreme shortage of properties for sale has fuelled the first rise in new homes sold off-plan since 2016.   In 2021 some...

haart, part of the Spicerhaart estate agency group, has accused rival agencies of copying its hybrid working model. Spicerhaart group managing director...

The government is considering seizing British property owned by Russian oligarchs on the sanctions list without paying compensation. The Financial Times says Housing...

A new analysis has revealed those areas of England and Wales with the largest numbers of Russian-owned homes. Credas Technologies analysed Land...

It is claimed by Propertymark that the government’s Economic Crime Bill - to be debated in the House of Commons today -...

Agents have 21 per cent fewer homes on their books now than a year ago according to a quick buy company. In...

It may be blowing a gale outside but we’re safe and warm here reading about our industry’s great work for good...

An Australian PropTech platform called PEXA aims to break into the UK property industry this year, claiming to improve transaction processes. PEXA...

Research by new homes sales service Unlatch has revealed how much cheaper energy bills are for new-builds, saving as much as...

Some regional property markets are perilously close to running out of any stock to sell. That’s the news from property data...

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

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants the government to put a stop to the capital being used for international money...

The average home sale in England and Wales in 2021 achieved 98 per cent of the asking price - slightly improved...

Propertymark is reiterating its view that energy efficiency and EPC changes being considered by government must take account of property age...

Strong house price growth since the pandemic began has boosted seller gains with the typical vendor who bought two decades ago...

The housing market boom of 2021 has given rise to an increasing number of £1m-plus deals.  Government statistics analysed by mortgage firm...

High-value properties were the top-performers in the country house market in 2021, according to an agency that majors in this sector.  In...

Estate agents, and indeed all professionals, should be offered the option of flexible working when they are appointed to the job. That’s...